Empathetic
I’m a very empathetic person. When someone I know and love is hurting, I feel their pain. I know that’s not uncommon. BUT I can also empathize with complete strangers. I can read a story online about someone’s tragedy and put myself in their shoes and cry and hurt with them.
The past few weeks I’ve been a hot mess. Then as suddenly as I became the hot mess, I became normal again and have been ever since. I’ve really been sticking to my goal of not sweating the small stuff and focusing on what really matters in my life. But now I have friends who are hot messes. And I ache for them. I feel for them. I hate that they live so far away. I wish so badly I could fly to them and feed them cookies and icecream and watch girly movies til all hours of the night. Most of my girlfriends live far. I have a lot of friends I’ve made through the internet. When these friends hurt, I hurt. When any of my friends ache, I ache. I’ve always been like this. My friend’s bad day becomes MY bad day.
I hate that there isn’t much I can do to fix my friend’s problems. I hate that I can’t be there to even talk about them with them in person.
Nonetheless, I ache today for a friend.
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It doesn’t surprise me that you are empathetic. Most people with a kind heart are sensitive to other people’s pain.
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I am too. Always have been. Sometimes it physically hurts me. Truly.
But you? I adore you. That is all.
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Your empathy is what makes you such a great friend and why we all love you.
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I would say I’m not very empathetic. But I am like that with television for some reason. I know, weird. When it comes to my girls, though, I definitely feel their pain, like you said, and of course my daughter as well. You’d do anything to keep them from feeling the way they do!
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i wish that you were closer to me so we could hang out and stuff!!! i totally want to watch movies and do girl stuff. wahhhh
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I too feel so much for others. I always try to help how ever I can and sometimes it puts me in a bind physcially or financially but I still always try to help!
Maybe that is why I like you so much – we have that caring for others thing in common!!
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Becky Reply:
October 19th, 2009 at 10:04 am
we really do. i usually go out of my way and sometimes end up getting hurt but i’d do it all over again if i could!
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