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A Story About Empathy

There’s a story going around about a man trying to cross the street. However, when he steps off the curb a car comes screaming around the corner    and heads straight for him.
The man walks faster, trying to hurry across the street, but the car changes lanes and is still coming at him. So the guy turns around to run back, but the car changes lanes again and is still coming at him.
By now, the car is so close and the man so scared that he just freezes in the middle of the road.
The car races right up to him, then swerves at the last possible moment and stops next to the man. The driver rolls down the window. Lo and behold, it’s a squirrel driving the car. And the squirrel says to the man,
“See, it’s not as easy as it looks, is it?

  -Rabbi Toba August

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