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Good posting Maha. Sometimes all we can do is visit someone’s pain and observe it. Trying to internalize the experience as you say is always going to be unavoidably through the lens of our own context personal context.
I remember as a 15 year-old being at a civil rights demonstration protesting pay and work conditions for older African American women working in hotels and restaurants. The cop standing right in front of me said something like, “why do you care about these people?” Being a young white kid from the middle class I suppose the question was appropriate but appropriate answer that came to me years later is, “why shouldn’t I care?”
Have you read “The Wounded Storyteller” 2nd edition by Arthur W. Frank? http://www.arthurwfrank.com/publications
First chapter “When Bodies Need Voices” is fabulous.