Empathy

Here's something that challenged what I always believed empathy meant (read this phrase on the internet a few days ago):

"Empathy is not defined as feeling the same as another (that's codependency), but rather the ability to hear what another is saying and to tell them that you heard."

And I always thought of it the way the dictionary presented it to me:

"Empathy is the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner."

Well, the first phrase is probably the correct interpretation, because if you come to think of it, even if you've been there, done that, you can still only re-feel what you felt in your time, but you can never actually feel what the other person is feeling right now.