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🗓️ 25 January 2021
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Sympathy, indifference, despair and anger are common emotions these days. The way to understand, then heal and finally unite requires that we first empathize.
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0:00.0 | Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired Podcast Monday Morning |
0:11.2 | Moments with John O'Leary. |
0:13.3 | I record these so that you may begin your week in awe and on fire with a burst of usually |
0:18.9 | much needed inspiration. |
0:22.2 | A quote that I came across recently that's going to plug into what we're talking about today. |
0:26.5 | It goes like this. |
0:28.1 | Sympathy is easy. |
0:29.9 | You can have sympathy for a starving child swadding at flies on the late night commercials. |
0:36.3 | Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. |
0:40.8 | Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking at someone else in the eyes and realizing that |
0:46.6 | you could be them and that all that separates you from them is luck. |
0:53.0 | Well, my friends, while on my knees next to my fallen dad two weeks ago, |
0:58.8 | I thought of that quote. Dad has been living with the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease for almost |
1:04.9 | three decades. Over this time, he's lost the ability to walk, to drive, to earn. It's difficult for my dad to speak, and lately, |
1:14.5 | it's becoming more difficult for my father to swallow. And yet today, dad, usually seated in his |
1:22.0 | trusty wheelchair, is the perfect embodiment of the joy that we all wish we possessed. |
1:29.6 | He's engaged with those around him. |
1:31.9 | He smiles and he laughs easily. |
1:34.1 | He's grateful for all that he has and he's content with the life that he's living. |
1:38.8 | Dad deals with constant pain and he's racked with continuous challenges. |
1:43.6 | But he simply refuses to be a |
1:46.0 | victim to his circumstances. But even as his son, it's easy for me to miss the profoundness |
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