Empathy Analysis

Empathy is a very important word to me, it helped me when I was lonely. I had lived in a house here in Bend Oregon since I was born until I was 8 years old. The house we were in was very small 3 bedroom house with my mother, my father, my sister, and my two dogs, that house was the root of so many problems we had. There were the small rooms, the small yard, and of course the weird neighbors. Around this time my great grandmother had died so we had and extra house that was also small. My parents wanted to sell our house any way so we decided to move into that house but it was just as small as our other house so my grandmother came up with an idea. The house they lived in was really big and they always talked about not wanting it so my grandmother said that they would move into my late great grandmothers house and we would move into my grandmothers old house.

To this new great house there was one downside, I would have to start at a new school. When we moved it was the summer in between my 2nd and 3rd grade years so I had made some good friends at my old school and I would have to make some more that I thought weren't going to be as cool, but I was wrong. On the first day at my new school no one talked to me because I was, "The New Kid," and I felt really left out when the teacher said to pick a partner, I was the teachers partner. At some part in the day everyone was just talking to one another and I was all alone, then a person came up to me and started a conversation, he asked me what my name was and he told me what his name was and we just talked casually. Since that day him and I are still really good friends. Now whenever I see a new kid at school I try to be as empathetic as the guy was to me on my first day. Showing empathy to others not only makes them feel good, it also makes you feel