In terms of empathy it feels like it often depends very much on the own degree of happiness. If you love yourself and those things you do in your day to day life, then it opens up your eyes for everything and you also care a lot more about the feelings of other people around you, because you want them to feel the same freedom as you do. Otherwise we often only care too much about what we want and our achievements, which we probably never reach. All we get out of that kind of thinking is frustration and we focus more and more on our unnecessary problems, than on things we already have reached. Such frustration is one of the first things that prevents us of beeing more empathic...