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develop your empathy
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in the timeline of events that have helped shape the way I empathize with others.
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Born in 1993,
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Nothing quite exciting happened until at least 1995 in my life
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in that year my parents opened a small bakery in upstate
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new york called bagels and bakes as the name says,
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we serve bagels and bakes and still open to the stack.
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I do recall film at times somewhat confused, especially as time went on.
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I was not sure why other Children got picked up and dropped off at their house
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where this one was and why I got picked up and dropped off at the bakery.
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Never made sense to me until I grew up
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from those experiences though,
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I can empathize with other Children who grew up in similar
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situations in which they dedicate a large amount of their time
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to their small family businesses.
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Fast forward to 2015. A lot has gone on.
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I've got out of high school and moved into college and I'm now in my junior year
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in which I had the opportunity to go study abroad in Barcelona Spain for four months.
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I remember feeling nothing but pure excitement.
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I had never been out of the country before and this is my first time doing so
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and also very fortunate to be able to participate in the program
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and those feelings stuck with me to the whole time through the experience.
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However, coming from that,
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the experience totally changed the way I viewed the world
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and I very quickly came to understand how little I actually understood about
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the world and how it worked and how it had been for
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its entirety.
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So by 2021 I finished college, I started my first job in 2016 out of college,
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full time position postgraduate.
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By 2018 I started my second and by 21,
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I started my third.
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More importantly in that time I met my girlfriend in 2019
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And in 2000 2021, we moved in together.
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We also got a dog.
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So I'll focus on the more important aspect. And I was meeting my girlfriend.
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I'll save some of the personal details because
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those are private to me and my girlfriend.
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But I do recall there being many conversations around the moving in topic
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and
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it was exciting, but also uneasy.
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We would never moved in with another partner before.
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So
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of course, we weren't sure how that was going to work.
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It's all worked out well, we're still, we're still living together,
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but I can empathize with couples who are unsure about moving in together and not
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not able to figure out how it's going to work,
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Even focusing just on the logistics of it.
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Moving
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two people things together into one space can be very tiresome
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and challenging,
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which brings us to today we still live together. So it worked.
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But I think the pain point is
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the challenge of moving in with another
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person and trying to combine everyone's things.
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So an idea that I have
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is to create an app that inventories all the items both parties have,
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and then to calculate how much space they would need for those items.
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That's my presentation. Thanks for.