In Silence, We Sat Together

About Empathy

“Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia — em (into) and pathos (feeling) — a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person’s pain as you’d enter another country, through immigration and customs, border crossing by way of query: What grows where you are? What are the laws? What animals graze there? “ /Leslie Jamison

You looked at me. Your eyes said ‘please come closer’, as if eyes could confess what the body has no strength to do. Those eyes invited me into the world only they had seen before. 

You surrendered to the demanding pull of the ground below you. I felt puzzled. At that moment all words knew better than me… preferring to be left unspoken. 

We sat together. I filled my lungs with the untold truth you had whispered into the atmosphere. 

I noticed the thick, grey clouds slowly drifting away from both of us. And the first rays of the sun dried the damp air between us. 

“Loneliness is most painful not when we are alone but when we are misunderstood, rejected, ostracised, or ignored by the people around us.”/Esther Perel

Judit ✨