• Empathy

    Finding the Man in the Monster

    Recently, I have been writing more and more fiction. While this has been something that I am okay with, there are more intellectual things that are in my mind. In one of my film classes, we talked about “Silence of the Lambs”. That was the first time I had heard of Hannable Lector. After finding out that there were many spin-off films and tv shows, I stumbled upon one of them. (I don’t know the title, I have never watched any of them.) The premise was that of a very empathetic person being asked to work with a cannibal to track down criminals. The empathetic person starts to care more…

  • The Best of Humanity

    What does it mean to be human? When you first think about humanity you may first think of the good that we see in the world. But as humans, we tend to have both good and bad happen to us while we are living our lives. As humans, we have a range of emotions both good and bad. While our emotions make our experiences, it also creates the experiences of the people around us as well. Think of the last time you got angry at someone. What happened? You probably thought of how much they were inconveniencing you. How much they didn’t understand what you were going through. After all,…