I watched Brene Brown's video on empathy and the differences between empathy and sympathy. She stated that sympathy drives us apart while empathy connects us. That being said I don't think that sympathy is necessarily a bad thing especially when it is difficult to feel empathy often. It is important when being empathic to feel with people and stay away from judgment. I loved her analogy about empathy being like climbing down into a hole of someone's situation with someone to connect with them. Often instead of listening to difficult problems, people try to fix it with a response instead of connecting to the person.
