The Importance of Empathy in Relationships

I believe that i just responded in a very human way to people who treated me like a human being, and that if my family were exposed to the same kind of thing that i was exposed to, that they would have left too. They haven't had those experiences yet, and that's the only difference between them and me. It seems like there are a lot of counter factual worlds where, if things had played out ever so differently, it might have been your family who left and not you, right? Sometimes the best way to empathize with others, to forgive others, to undertry and understand where they're coming from is to recognize that there's not that much that actually separates you