Empathy vs. Sympathy

In our generation we have 2 very distinct nouns that are shwn throughout someones lifetime, Empathy and Sympathy.Empathy the ability to understand and share the feelings of another "putting yourself in someone else's shoes" . Sympathy the feeling of caring about someone else's grief or misfortune, it is mutually known as support. although these 2 nouns sound the same they do have a slight difference. Between these two nouns is the one difference, which is having a helpful hand. an example would be helping out in a soup kitchen, you have many choices as to what you could "help" out with,you could "help" out in the back with the cooking, you could "help" serve to the families, or you could "help" with socialization towards the people. A person who is empathetic would decide to socialize and try to put theirselves in the other persons shoes, even though it might be difficult. yet a person who would be sympathetic would pass out the food or help cook in the back, because they do feel sorry but they know they cant do anything about it. there is a reason why i quoted the word help in one of my sentences, i did this because that word is thrown around, you can use the term constantly but not many people live up to the standards of what the word actually means. Throughout the world and troughout the many generations, we have had wars and battles and more wars. Everyone that had fought in these wars were known as brave and never weak. I could not agree onto how these soldiers went into war and what they had fought about, but i could sincerely empathize. i could figure out why they are fighting and what they believe in if i were to empathize and act as if i were there just about to go into war. i have no clue as to what i would be thinking but i would know that what i am doing is right. Empathizing is what makes you different towards the literature, you can personally feel for what was happening during that time period. the past was a difficult time so if you empathize you might have a clearer image as to why many of the major wars and battles happened, not just what is in textbooks and books. Empathizing and Sympathizing is one of the main things that make us human.