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How pleased are you with your level of empathy?

  • I think I have way too much empathy.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I think I have a little too much empathy.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I think I have an appropriate amount of empathy.

    Votes: 4 40.0%
  • I think I have a little less empathy than optimum.

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • I think I have very little empathy.

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • It tends to vary.

    Votes: 4 40.0%
  • Other.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    10
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Forever Sleep

Earned it we have...
May 4, 2022
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I suspect either too much or, too little empathy can get us into trouble. Where do you feel you sit?

I think when I was younger, I had a lot more empathy. Although, maybe sympathy would be a better word. I think I actively tried to encourage my empathy by imagining how difficult it must be for others so- that's another question I suppose. How much is innate and how much do we learn or try to develop?

Now though, my empathy levels seem to vary, according to what mood I'm in. Sometimes I think we can become over saturated so- we just don't have the same space to care about others. Maybe it's not that we stop caring though. Maybe we just try to remove ourself from situations in which we are expected to care. We may feel we need to stop watching the news for example.

What's your experience though? I know we have some highly sensitive empaths here who feel the weight of all the world's problems. There again, there are also people who feel lesa able to feel anything now. Has your life changed your experience and approach to it? Was it a conscious decision to try to become less or more empathetic. What level do you suppose you had genetically? If you believe it is inherited as well as taught.

I think I was born to be nicer than I am!
 

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