Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!

by Chelsea Handler

“Sympathy is feeling bad for someone or for their situation. Sympathy is more like pity. Empathy is imagining what it’s like to be in that person’s shoes. Thinking about what it feels like to be another person and the understanding that their experiences and outlooks may have been unlike your own. Actually, thinking about what it’s like to be them.”

My brother always smelled like a bonfire. He smelled like the beach and the woods all at the same time. He smelled like home.