“Empathy is the most precious human quality.” - The Dali Lama
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Are You An Empath?
Have you ever just started crying your heart out reading a tragic story? Or perhaps sensed someone was sad and tried to cheer them up? Maybe you have been exhausted and drained after watching a particularly dramatic movie? If you answered yes to all of these you might be an Empath!
I have always been considered the sensitive one in my family, perhaps even dramatic. What I think is so difficult about that is that BECAUSE I am naturally empathetic and sensitive that when people point it out like it's a flaw, it really hurts me. I don't see it as a flaw! Yes, I wear my heart on my sleeve and share my feelings with the world through social media or anywhere really, but that isn't such a bad thing always!
You see, I might get ridiculed for it by well intending people but it's the people that don't share that sentiment that really matter! The people who are going through hard times and send me private messages about how my openness has given them strength. How my emotional transparency allowed them to express themselves better. And the ones that say they wish they could express themselves more but just can't, so they bottle it up. I don't bottle up much, I feel it, in the moment, as it happens. But that can be very HARD!
Like now! Right now, I have a trillion emotions surging through me causing me to feel so much at once that I feel as I might explode. I am exploding, right now, through my fingertips as I write I am releasing these emotions into the keyboard and onto the page. So please don't tell me to keep it all to myself or be more private because if I did that it would be very bad, very bad indeed. I have too many emotions to bottle. I feel everything happening around me like it is happening to myself. I feel the earth suffering and crying with fires, earthquakes, and these really horrible hurricanes that have already impacted so many and are about to do so much more!
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I have family in Florida that have evacuated to Georgia but I also have family and friends that COULD NOT evacuate and are trapped in the path of the biggest, fiercest hurricane any of us have ever seen! I hurt by their inability to do anything but prepare for the worst! I fear for their lives and homes. I feel so helpless that I can't rescue them in a helicopter and get them out to safety!
I am then consumed with the fact that the storm is now aiming directly at us and we will be under some severe category one winds and rain, likely tornadoes, and power outages, all before I even know if my family in Florida are okay or not. We have 18 goats and several hundred various forms of poultry that we are hurrying to find ways to keep them safe during all this. We also have four children we must protect and keep safe and happy during all this. We are under some serious pressure to remain calm, hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
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And to top it all off my husband, our sole provider, was let go from his favorite job ever unexpectedly Thursday afternoon. With all the other things happening in our world and with our family it has been impossible to even process those emotions completely. They keep bubbling up in the pauses between clearing things off porches and yard, building stronger shelters for our birds to survive, shopping for last minute supplies and messaging family to ensure my niece had a way to escape the Florida coast. But the extent of those emotions have not been fully explored yet and will probably be put on the back burner until this storm passes. But I can tell you, change is hard, job loss is a huge change, finding a new job is stressful, filing for unemployment sucks, having no income is scary and all of this and so much more is waiting for us on the other side of our current tragedy.
We are strong! We are brave! We will get through this storm and whatever it brings us and we will survive to face the next storm in our life! But let me tell you, ALL these FEELINGS, they are HARD!
Ahhh, there, that feels better already!
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