Everything is worse now. Family troubles. Nobody wants to give up their position on anything to meet in the middle. Nobody deserves this. We all deserve better of each other.
I feel like empathy is an umbrella term for different kinds of understanding about "the other person" at different times and different situations. It's so vague it's easy to both miss seeing it and finding it at all.
I'm slowly losing the sense of belonging I had to my work. I'm afraid I'll never financially recover from it if I fully realize it.