^ I’m very well grounded in rationality, I think, but I also have what seems to be unusual sensitivity to the experiences of other people, usually negative emotion. Like feel what you feel.. I’ve broken down crying with people, often, when they share a painful story because I’m there feeling the whole thing with them. You talk to some interesting people at a gas off the highway between a few states.
One women escaped from a cult. She seemed troubled/inbriated and I come to find out her son has her newly on pot instead of her psych meds. Poor woman was so damaged by the brain washing of that cult, but I think her life only improving from what I could tell when I was talking to her. She shared some very private stuff with me and stopped midway through the conversation and told me I don’t know why I’m saying all this but there just seems to be something special about you.
Another women was a survivor/witness of the
Kent State Massacre. This the was hardest story I’ve heard in my life and I wish I could remember it better. I just remember the emotion and that this lady was wounded to her soul and needed me to hear her story.
Yet another woman, absolutely beautiful, asked if she could join me smoking, and told me she used to be a con and now she’s working for the feds. She actually just listened to me and told me that as she was leaving and wished me luck getting to California, but she was so pretty and cool, and I wanna work for the Feds so I can be, too.
Met a Hell’s Angel, which was interesting in and of itself because we were in Pagan territory, and I could feel the evil coming off this guy before he told me that, after I severely botched some small talk:
Guy is grumbling about something. Ha, sounds like you need a vacation. I’m a Hells Angel. We don’t get a vacation. Oh, wow, is that fun? (Please murder me). Dude gets right up in my face and asks me if I could kill someone. I thought a moment and said no, no I suppose I couldn’t. Then, no, it isn’t fucking fun.
This is more like tales from redneck gas stations than I think I’m an empath now so I’m just gonna leave it at I think pursuing spiritual growth is something that might actually be dumb for me to pass up, because I suspect have natural talents there and I want to strengthen them.