05-11-2016, 02:04 PM
That's so interesting! I feel like I know many people like you. Knowing right from wrong, and compassion from indifference but they don't feel the physical feeling of empathy that some people seem like they are born with. For me it feels like a rope pulling on my heart to whoever I'm feeling for in that moment, electric, charged, sharp and undeniable.
I feel like a path to this kind of heart-opening might be having children. Though I don't have any myself, I have seen the change in many people when they experience that unconditional love that a parent has for their child. I think the trick at that point, though, is taking that love and extending it, once you have a grasp of it, to the rest of the universe. I find it sad when I notice people who clearly love their children with a mighty force but only allow it to encircle the child, turning the emotion outside that circle to something worse than indifference, into something more like a cold, hard defense.
I feel like a path to this kind of heart-opening might be having children. Though I don't have any myself, I have seen the change in many people when they experience that unconditional love that a parent has for their child. I think the trick at that point, though, is taking that love and extending it, once you have a grasp of it, to the rest of the universe. I find it sad when I notice people who clearly love their children with a mighty force but only allow it to encircle the child, turning the emotion outside that circle to something worse than indifference, into something more like a cold, hard defense.