Still Alice

by Lisa Genova

Sympathy is feeling for someone and keeps us emotionally detached, our experiences separate. Empathy is feeling with someone. It’s the imaginative leap we make when we take on the perspective of another person, when I imagine what it feels like to be you.

its core it was a collaborative effort to know something valuable and give it to the world. It was socialism powered by capitalism. It was a strange, competitive, cerebral, and privileged life.