💝
You Hive, You Empathy
💝

Diseño sin título.jpg

_{📷 Image edited in Canva and Photoscape with its free resources: Screenshot}

A long time ago, web2 recommended me an animated short film called “Cuerdas” which I decided to watch because it had many positive comments mentioning something that unfortunately is slowly being lost in humanity, something called “Empathy”. I decided to watch it and in addition to taking away several tears, it left me with a deep reflection, not only about the story itself, but about the paternity of its creator Pedro Solis Garcia and today I want to share with you both the short film and my learning through the current initiative of the community.

The short film makes clear a message about empathy and being singled out as something strange when suffering from a disease. Maria is a girl with a lot of brightness and love inside her, who far from feeling pity for the boy who suffers from cerebral palsy, feels a connection and sees him as an equal.

Feeling pity is not the same as feeling empathy, if someone sees me with pity, in my opinion, it would make me feel more miserable, instead if someone sees you with empathy, you know that person puts himself in your shoes and feels what you feel, but does not want to help you out of pity or to fill his ego, but because he sees you as a normal person to whom life played a trick on him and that is what Maria does, while her other classmates see the new boy with contempt for his condition, she sees him and feels a special connection with him, she is interested in being his friend and includes him in different kinds of activities giving his heart a huge joy, that's how the rest of her classmates start to see her as a weird girl, but clearly she doesn't care.

To feel pity is to enlarge your suffering, to feel empathy is to make you forget it.

The story is inspired by Pedro Solis' son who passed away from the disease not long ago and he himself said that he wished his son had never inspired him to create this short film, the reason is more than obvious.

Solis made this short film to raise awareness about mental health because of his son's condition and it made me reflect on a very important point in my life: Parenthood.

I belong to that percentage that had a very bad father figure, in fact, when I was 5 years old I got very sick, I had pneumonitis that got worse because of the late diagnosis and I had to be hospitalized. I still remember that night before my hospitalization when my lungs closed and I did not let my dad sleep. He got angry about it and threw a withering sentence, he said I was faking. While Solis wanted to reach out to the whole world for his son's health, I almost died because of my dad's lack of interest and because of that, for many years, I considered father figures as something bad and mistakenly put all dads in the same bag, today I regret having had that thought.

It is nice to find people who do not see your physical condition, but your essence as a human being. Solis has done a wonderful job, a touching story that touched the hearts of many people and invites you to reflect on different important points of life.

After watching this short film, I reflected on two things:

The difference between feeling pity and feeling empathy and how empathy can change someone's world, and that a bad father does not represent the rest of fathers, there are men who truly love their children. Thank you for your visit!