empathetic
understanding and temporarily shring the feelings of someone else, whether positive or negative
i have always been called empathetic. i know its stupid to call yourself an empath but i do think i have a really deep understanding of how other people feel and why other people do the things they do or feel the way they feel. i'm not perfect. sometimes i spend too much time trying to understand someone else when they don't understand me or it gets in the way of establishing how i feel. it's a beautiful thing to be empathetic, i think everyone wants to be understood and empathy is a step towards understanding another person or is the key to understanding. we are all human and though we have different experiences we all feel a huge range of emotions that we can recognizze in each other. i love knowing how happy my friends are and i love being able to understand when they are upset and why, so i can help them and be there for them. it's hard to help someone if you don't understand.
“Could we but draw back the curtains
That surround each other's lives,
See the naked heart and spirit,
Know what spur the action gives,
Often we should find it better,
Purer than we judged we should,
We should love each other better,
If we only understood.”
If We Understood
“The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple’s a rose,
And the pear is, and so’s
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose-
But were always a rose.”
Robert Frost, The Rose Family
