Dichotomy...

Today's topic is empathy. Good thing or bad thing? When someone you love feels down, it's your responsibility to help make them feel better. This is complicated by feeling bad yourself for no other reason than that someone you love feels bad. To look in their eyes and see pain is to feel pain in your own heart. The only way to make yourself feel better is to see the girl you love smiling again. So is empathy good or bad? I suppose you could make the argument either way. It's good because it's necessitates a close emotional bond to begin with which is a very comforting thing to have. Seeing them happy makes you happy which makes them happier and so forth. But having your emotions tied to someone else's can also be a bad thing when the emotions are negative, leading to a perpetual downward spiral. *sigh* I just wish there was something I could do or say to make your self-imposed suffering end and make you feel good about yourself again. Your diary made me cry and all I can offer you in return is: I love you.

Posted by Rev. Adam on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 at 4:12 PM | Permalink