Until we’ve personally walked in the shoes of others do we fully understand what someone is going through. Brant shares the significance of personal experience in empathy, after hearing a story about Lindsay, an oncology nurse who was diagnosed with cancer. She apologized to her previous patients for not fully understanding their experience until personally living what they went through.
A powerful story, and a reminder for us to live, and lead, with empathy.
Transcription:
Brant:
There’s some stuff that you think you can understand, but you really don’t until you’re there, like until you’ve been through it, until you’ve had that experience. This woman’s name is Lindsay. She’s been an oncology nurse her entire career. Well, guess what she got diagnosed with? So, now she’s got cancer. She wrote a blog to apologize to all the patients she’s ever treated to say, I didn’t understand. I didn’t know what you’re going through. I didn’t know what that was like. To have that many questions in mind. To be hanging on every word from your doctor or your nurse, to wonder what’s going to happen. Some of the dark places you go to… And I mentioned this because if you’re going through something, I have seen it where God uses that as a blessing in other people’s life, because now you understand it, you really get it. And it’s a credit to you if you can begin to understand without even going through it. But man, sometimes you’ve got to be there and once you’ve been there, you’re a huge blessing to people now.
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