13V What is Your Purpose??

Purpose: the goal that someone want to achieve or intended to achieve

              a goal or meaning in your life because there is something that you want to achieve.

Empathy: the feeling that you understand and share another person's experiences and emotions.
Sympathy: feeling that you care about and are sorry about someone else's trouble, grief, or misfortune. 

I think when it comes down to why chose someone to go to college or not is because of purpose. A person who chose to go to college may have a purpose of just to please their parents and family, or it may be because they have something to prove to themselves. They want to walk across that stage and have their diploma handed to them, knowing that their hard work paid off and have reached their goal. If a person decides not to go to college, then that might be because they feel that their life has no purpose.

In class we talked about how living a meaningful life needs to involve a person to have empathy for someone else. Now I don’t know about you, but I always get empathy and sympathy confused, so for this week’s vocab blog I decided to find out the difference between the two. Empathy is understanding, but also sharing in the experiences that another person went through, while sympathy is feeling sorry and caring about what other people are going through.