How do the shoes fit?

Is there anything to me beyond ‘I, me, mine, myself’, and such other pronouns? Anything that I think of is always from my perspective. Isn’t it possible for me to think from someone else’s perspective? Yes, there are times when I do not say/do things that would hurt, anger or humiliate another person. But then again that’s the result of thinking from my perspective. “I would be hurt if I heard that” feeling. Or because I have learnt that s/he hurts when I say ‘it’ from past experience. I don’t know the ‘how/why’ of it though. Much as I try to put myself in someone else’s place/shoes I fail. Either I don’t find that someone’s place or I find the shoes too tight/loose to wear!

Am I one of the rare persons who think and behave like this (always from ‘I angle’) or is it the case with most people? I wonder. I want to know. I think I will start with asking all people I know if they always think from their own view or if they can see through someone’s eyes – as sung by heroes/heroines in Hindi movies!

Tail piece
Was talking to AV yesterday. He echoes what I feel. But he emphatically also stated, “None can think from another’s perspective. There are moments when one understands another. That’s called empathy”. I would like to hear more on this though!