One of the most important attributes that would serve a person well throughout their life is empathy. The ability to put ourselves in the shoes of another and feel sympathy for their lot in life - if only each one of us had a drop or two. The world would definitely benefit in many ways.
I think women have a real capacity for this emotion perhaps because we carry the emotion gene. To feel intuitively allows us to open up to others and hear their stories in an empathic manner. For instance at the gym there is a lady who spoke of her brother-in-law who has dementia. Her sister has passed on so this lady has taken it upon herself to keep watch over her sister's husband. We stood around her and listened to her story and I could not but help notice how each one of us gave her a hearing. In the end that is all she needed - us to listen empathically.
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