Putting yourself in someone else's shoes, in other words, to be empathetic towards that someone else.

This is never an easy task, why?

You see, taking it literally, it is not easy to have matching feet size; and even if you do have a matching feet size, the construction of the shoes might not suit you (e.g. narrow shoe toe, not enough arch support).
Meaning to say that, when you put yourself in someone else's shoes, you won't be able to go through what the person has gone through... You know, like the chewing gum he stepped on, the uneven floor he tripped over, the slippery hallway he.. well slipped :)

In a related note, that is also why people always seem to downplay other people's problems; because it is just so difficult to understand other people's problems! Me losing my dog (this is random lol) is different from you losing your dog even though we both lost our dogs. To illustrate, me getting poked by a needle is different from you getting poked by the same needle with the same intensity albeit both of us were indeed poked!

So yea, kesimpulannya, don't simply wear people's shoes la, okay?! :P

p/s: this post has no whatsoever significant meaning etc. it is as random as me wanting to maintain 76.2 :)