RE: The empathy factor
June 7, 2017 at 6:40 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2017 at 6:45 pm by Regina.)
I can relate
It runs deep for me too, I get very emotional if I see someone in pain, or talking about painful experiences or loss, even if I don't know them personally. It also works the opposite way for me, if someone gets really good news, even if it doesn't affect me, it can lift my mood when I see their happiness. I guess I'm just hyper-socially aware or something.
I think based on my own experiences of seeing my Dad's health decline to cancer, and losing him over it, I'm especially sensitive when terminal illnesses are involved. I'm very easily reduced to tears hearing cancer stories, almost uncontrollably. Not exclusively though, I also got like that once hearing a co-worker (who I didn't know well at that point) talking about his experieces in The Angolan Civil War, and obviously I've never experienced anything like that.
I don't know where I get it from a lot of times. Neither of my parents are this soppy.
It runs deep for me too, I get very emotional if I see someone in pain, or talking about painful experiences or loss, even if I don't know them personally. It also works the opposite way for me, if someone gets really good news, even if it doesn't affect me, it can lift my mood when I see their happiness. I guess I'm just hyper-socially aware or something.
I think based on my own experiences of seeing my Dad's health decline to cancer, and losing him over it, I'm especially sensitive when terminal illnesses are involved. I'm very easily reduced to tears hearing cancer stories, almost uncontrollably. Not exclusively though, I also got like that once hearing a co-worker (who I didn't know well at that point) talking about his experieces in The Angolan Civil War, and obviously I've never experienced anything like that.
I don't know where I get it from a lot of times. Neither of my parents are this soppy.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
