Ampathy, at a Deeper Level

You write in the book about your parents, that two people's experiences could differ so drastically, yet both be true and deep. I think for me, empathizing with my parents was a survival skill that i needed just to sort of keep my family together at some level. But it also taught me at a much broader level that people can be fundamentally different from each other for fundamentally similar reasons. And i think that ampathy, at a deep level, is the understanding that some one else's world is just as real as yours.