I think if I have any strength in this world, it’s that I am a really empathetic person. To most people this means that I am overemotional, but they usually fail to understand what impact empathy can have on a person. My empathy is why I write poetry, it’s how I can read Max like a book, it’s why I can feel the tension in a room and how I know what present is perfect for someone. I have always been interested in perspective, and even more than that, breaking through perspective.<\/p>\n
I can attribute most of these feelings to a book I read in the fourth grade. It was called Walk Two Moons<\/em> by Sharon Creech. I remember it was one of my favorite books, and one of the main themes of the story was empathy as a source for understanding. I think I built a lot of who I am on that book, actually.<\/p>\n Anyway, I recommend it, if you need a quick winter read. It’s simple (again, I read it in grade four) but it’s a great story (and it won a Newbery!)<\/p>\n …someone just threw a snowball in my window. Why do jerks have to ruin such quiet nights as these?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think if I have any strength in this world, it’s that I am a really empathetic person. To most people this means that I am overemotional, but they usually fail to understand what impact empathy can have on a person. My empathy is why I write poetry, it’s how I can read Max like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,217],"tags":[1381],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-spirituality","tag-decemblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/samwashere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}