Be sensitive to others emotions

The concept of responding sensitively when others communicate emotions is so true. You don’t have to necessarily accept or even agree with what someone is expressing, but you should always be supportive and compassionate. One of my biggest regrets is a reaction I had to one of my closest friend’s conversations. She had called looking for a friend to lend support and got a judgmental lecture instead. Mid conversation I felt her devastation and I knew her fragile state couldn’t handle my reaction affirming she had made a horrible mistake. I realized that she regretted her choice and only wanted consoling. I tried to do my best to backtrack, but she was already cut to pieces. She never said anything, she was quiet the whole time, but I knew she was deeply hurt. Hurt by her irreversible consequences, hurt by her disappointment, hurt by my reaction, just plain hurt by it all. This conversation happened over five years ago and I can still feel her pain from the other end of the receiver. I know that I was just a minute factor in what she was feeling at the time, but for me it’s like I caused all of her sadness. I hope you all try your best to respond sensitively to others emotions because if someone looks to you for support it is because you have demonstrated that you can provide it. Don’t let them or yourself down by behaving insensitively, you never know when you’ll be needing a shoulder to cry on. I love my friend and I should have just listened no matter how dumb I thought she had acted.