Who said walk in my shoes

And write your own books. Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place. It fills me with a weird rage to wear shoes that make me not able to walk easily or run if I had to.

It feeds into this whole 'war on women' thing in my head. I feel for all the parents whose babies just keep waking up for years. My heart and back go out to you guys! You are my heroes, and I am not fit to walk in your shoes! I empathize with women in their high heels so I'll be there in my kilt and T-shirt and I'll walk around all day just to prove that if I can wear the shoes for 36 hours then certainly our customer can wear them.

I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

I try to show compassion to people I come into contact with and try to put good out, as much good as I can. But that's my life; that's not my work. With my work, my job is to walk in another man's shoes. I wouldn't take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, 'Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.

Hi Jim, thanks for stepping by and leaving your feedback! Great article, very informative. Empathy is at the core of this process. Some more information can be found here: www walking-in-your-shoes. My fascination of this has resulted in getting trained and now having started to facilitating this work. I like your article Steve, as it is a good beginning to the practice of empathy. That is an excellent addition, thank you very much!

If I have the time I will included into the article because you are quite right about it. Never knowing where the shoes pinch informs me of the limitations of my empathy for another, and helps guide me to better understand there are other elements in connecting with a fellow human being. However, I can try to imagine being in that state by taking an experience of loss from my own life and intensifying it.

Empathy is part of being human — the problem is few of us exercise it. But we have the power to choose to use it, to incorporate it in our lives daily, and use it as a tool in our tool boxes for becoming better to others and to ourselves, for ignoring our differences and realizing every person on this planet is our brother or sister.

Thank you for your comment. You have put into words many important ideas that I was not able to formulate.

Thanks for making this important addition to the article. Hi Steve. Loved the article. If you in deed agreed with the following statement.. Thanks again for the article,. In a practical sense, employing empathy is also the greatest possible advantage in your ability to communicate with other people in every scenario. Thoughts: In learning to understand others, the reality is that most people act and react from ego center. In most conflicts, people act as mirrors for each other.

The thing that most upsets us in another person is the thing we most detest in ourselves. At the same time, considering this before speaking can help to avoid conflict. We may not have enough courage to display it. Thoughts: Maya Angelou reminds us that empathy is not some intangible characteristic that some are born with and others are not. Meaningful articles and readings. I tried to walk a mile in a man's shoes once.

I ended up running most of the way!! Seems he wanted them back.. THEO: You should walk a fucking mile before you judge a situation. You should put yourself in someone else's shoes before you blame, or judge, or pity.

It takes a long time to wear down someone's confidence, and it takes much more strength of will to walk away than it does to take another punch. Walking a mile in someone else's shoes isn't as much about the walk or the shoes; it's to be able to think like they think, feel what they feel, and understand why they are who and where they are. Every step is about empathy. Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes.

After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes! Before you judge someone, walk a mile in his shoes.

Forget the shoes, forget the mile long walk My apologies. I meant no offense. Like Mrs Pleasance I always fancy that misers are old.