Empathy of the Human Race

     Empathy is the ability to share and feel peoples pain and emotions. Even though it is debated that people are born with or learn empathy, there are many different people who experience it differently. Some people Cant really feel the pain of others and don't really connect with them.While other people will totally relate to one person and feel there emotion and what they are going through. One story that can show the reader pain and make them relate to it or in other words feel empathy is The Metamorphosis. In this story the reader is put in the perspective of Gregor who has been turned into a bug. The way Kafka writes the story make one feel as if they are feeling the emotions of Gregor. One example of this is the long and tiring sentence that Kafka writes. This makes one relate to the sleepy and tired emotions of Gregor. Also, another example is the relationship with his family. Gregor feels isolated from the family and not as one. Here the reader really can feel those emotions and feel like they are being isolated. This makes the reader in the end feel like the family is mean and makes them dislike the family. Empathy can also be synthesized and a fake emotion or a emotion that is not yours can trigger the same neurons in your brain as the person feeling them. This is explained in Jeremy Rifkins video on empathy and shows that humans can feel emotions from other people and they will be the same as if they felt them.  
       existentialism is defined as many ways, but one prevalent fact that I found was in a lot of the definitions is that existentialism is a way that humans can keep on leaving and not destroy them selves. One thing that must be done to survive is to live and act with each other. In Jeremey Rifkins video he talks about all the classes that humans have made up such as religious class blood ties and so on. In order to keep living humans must make connections with the human race and identify with everyone in the world. This again connects to empathy and that every one shares emotions. If every one in the world feels together there will be more done to help those in pain or who are suffering  because we all feel like family. In today's world there are many examples where humans don't act as one, such as corrupt governments. In dictator ships or corrupt governments not all people get a far say and are represented un equally. This does not go twords the goal of all humans working together.