Walking In My Shoes

One of my favorite songs and the one really change my thoughts.
Walking in my shoes. Depeche Mode 1993.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHuf0gmq-A4


In few words this song talks about empathy
Have you ever thought how you can do so many tasks, study many topics, and take a couple of jobs alla at the same time?

Then someone tells you how exhausted he or she is just by doing one of the multiple things you do. Immediately you thing. Why this person is complaint for one thing while I can do 5?

Well….Try to walk in his or her shoes to see if you can understand how that person is felling about. We don’t know what that person has been through. We don’t know the person background and for sure that person can do some things or has some skills that we don’t.

I used to be the kind of person that used to measure people according to my own standards, my own believes and my own experience. How wrong I was.

This song helped me to realize that all human beings are different and all have a different process and times to learn the same things. Some of them learn to read at the edge of 4, others at 5. Since I learned to read at 5 years old it does not mean that all people learned at the same edge. Most important those who could not learn, are not wrong or different. Simply they have their own process and time to learn. This happened with everything in life. Some people could achieve professional success at the edge of 28. For others the same success can arrive at the edge of 38 years. What does it mean? It means that the process of life is different for every single person in the word.


 I invite you next time you are in a situation in which you are measure people under your personal and social standards, to try to put yourself in the other person’s shoes. If you can do it, you will enter in the new word in which tolerance and compassion are welcome.