It’s Not Sensitivity; It’s Being Stuck in Empathy
In a world where everyone talks about being emotionally aware it is easy to start thinking you are just too sensitive. Like something is wrong with you because you feel too much too fast too deep. But most of the time it is not that you are broken or weak. It is more like you are stuck in empathy and you do not even realize it yet. Empathy sounds nice on paper. You feel people. You understand them. You kind of step into their emotions without even trying. But the problem is it does not really have boundaries. So you hear someone’s stress their sadness their chaos and suddenly it is in your body too. Your mood shifts your energy drops your mind starts carrying things that were never yours in the first place. And then you wonder why you feel drained after talking to people. And it builds up. Like you are a sponge absorbing everything. You think you are being a good person by feeling everything with everyone but actually you are just exhausting yourself. And the worst part is you start t...