We hurt others when we lack empathy

Today I am sharing some recent conversations as well as information I read on Facebook that I found interesting, disconcerting and downright barbaric. Of course, I prefer to start with a somewhat heartwarming but yet sad conversation I had with a sister before I get into others that are distasteful or may even trigger some people based on their life’s experiences.

“My son and I were talking, and we talk a lot,” a sister said to me recently. I really liked the part where she said ‘we talk a lot’, because talking to our children is very important.

“And you know he was like; I am trying to remember how he got to that point but it is not coming to me. But anyway, he said to me, ‘you know a girl in my class have no mother’ and right away you know I sit up because when he said it, he sounded so sad,” the sister told me.