Empathy: What are the roles of empathy in dealing with every day life?

When asked to describe love, William Shakespeare wrote this short verse, "Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs, being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet." One who has fallen into a deep love can understand this sort of torn feeling of a heaven and hell, such as Terri …

…deserve from the rough lives that they have lived through, and to misunderstand these hardened individuals brings light to your true level of empathy with these characters, whom not only reflect very different parts of their societies, but are very easy to relate to. Life is too short to not be understanding, "Feeling for your brothers is what's kept us fighting, just hope that others will too feel our suffering and come..." - Winston Churchill