Is There a Difference Between Empathy and Compassion?

We're only truly engaging in true empathy and compassion when it's something that we allow for us too. The over thinking paralyzes us and gives us an out from king action. We envy people whom on some level we recognize as being similar to us. This contradicts the story we've been telling ourselves about why we don't have the particular thing, why we're not doing the particular thing. And this flies in the face of the justifications we for why we're avoiding beinga, doing and having the things that we truly need, desire and deserve. It's feeling wounded by people being themselves despite the fact that we've been good. It's trying to be the exception to the rule