Empathy is an important part of the human experience. When we empathize we connect with others, we feel what they feel, we understand others, we love and feel loved. People want to be heard and understood, even if their views differ from another person's. There was a time when families talked to each other. Thoughts, ideas and beliefs were shared face to face, without worrying about the judgment that was passed. We live in a world today that has access to information at the click of a computer mouse. Hidden in anonymity behind a computer monitor we can lose the ability to communicate effectively with other human beings. Sometimes anonymity makes us bolder in our conversations and less concerned about other people's opinions, feelings and points of view. Does someone else's opinion really matter? Do we really care what others think? Is the way we see another person distorted when we fail to exercise empathy? These are some of the questions we need to ask ourselves to determine if we are an effective empath. The willingness to listen and understand another person's thoughts enriches our lives and makes us better people and contributes to the progress of the human family. Learning to empathize is the key to understanding and becoming an active listener. Without empathy as part of our communication skills, our thinking will be limited and restricted. Experts say our brains are wired to connect. Author Daniel Coleman in the book entitled Social Intelligence The New Science of Human Relationships writes: "Neuroscience has discovered that the very structure of our brain makes it sociable, inexorably involved in an intimate brain-to-brain connection every time we interact with a other person" (With ...... in the center of the card ...... they can communicate with each other from opposite sides of the planet with the click of a mouse. What hasn't changed since the beginning of time is the need to be listened to and We as humans are empathetic by nature. All the infrastructure is in place, but the skills to be a good listener and process information to understand it require practice listened to and validated as part of our human family person and, because of the way he speaks, dresses or, above all, thinks, put aside his feelings and thoughts. It is our moment on this planet to make a difference in the life of every person we meet and invite into circles of our life. Empathy is the key that opens the door to understanding and closes the door of hatred and partial thinking