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Why can I not relate to the majority of them? It's a basic feature of empathy.

• kouru225 3y ago
  Relating may be the wrong word. Its one thing to empathize with someone’s pov, but it’s another to recreate it. We all are living, in some respect, in response to our environment. You can empathize with another’s pov but that doesn’t mean you have a full understanding of the ecosystem of thoughts that led them to their conclusions. What I’m saying is that as our environment changes over time, your ecosystem of thoughts change, and if you put those thoughts down at the moment then you can find moments in your past when you, too, came to the same conclusion as other people. That way you can relate not only to their opinion, but to the environment that the opinion was (in some respect) created in response to. You can then relate not just to their conscious pov but to the unsaid subconscious aspects of their pov as well. It allows you to find connections you previously wouldn’t have found. It also has helped me change my perception of myself.