Empathy
What makes empathy?
Break-up
Operation
Stagnation
Frustration
Surgery
Negligence
Harassment
Ennui
Betrayal
Failure
Bereavment
Guilt
Rejection
Your pain is mine too.
What makes empathy?
Break-up
Operation
Stagnation
Frustration
Surgery
Negligence
Ennui
Betrayal
Failure
Bereavment
Guilt
Rejection
Your pain is mine too.
25 years ago Mary Schmidt wrote ‘Tips from a speech never given’. It was read by many people including a teen me. I thought some day I’d be able to tell people how to life right. I’m at mid-life crisis because how else to describe someone who refuses to act…
Sometimes I’m so angry I keep quiet only because I think I’d spew flames and not words. Some days I look at people I see everyday and I notice the worry lines on their faces so clearly, it is all I can do to stop myself from reaching out to…
How am I? It’s pain like I cannot even begin to articulate. So much that I’m numb. A thick sheet of plastic over a boiling cauldron of black, festering poison. That’s me.
I’m hitting the unremarkable age of thirty-four. Unremarkable, not unimportant.
The last few years have been better after a living nightmare. But I’m tired.
I don’t want to be good at letting people hurt me. I’m pondering the word ‘boundaries’.
Before we know, all these dots connect and we reach one of the extremes !!