The Law of Responsibility

[Night Owl]

That's really the crux of it I think.

Say you are not empathic and walk into a place where someone feels depressed, you have no conscious responsibility because you are not aware of the ambient energy and will merely absorb unconsciously a small portion of it (small responsibility of having drawn yourself to walk in it).

Say you are empathic and walk into a place where someone feels depressed, you are conscious of the ambient energy and can't be unaware there is someone depressed. Because of this you are forced a polarized choice, you can either ignore the energy or work with it within yourself or find the person to help them directly. The awareness created a responsibility in that whatever your choice is, you can't not have a response because you are aware. Then the charge it held is balanced with your other charges and if you were untrue with yourself and your aims in your response, then you will attract catalyst to work those charges so that the various implicated aspects of yourself are balanced together (the initial event already was a catalyst refining these aspects).

Exept I don't believe there is such a thing as a non-empathetic person, and even less a non-empathetic person who would theoretically be true to oneself. I think that people who appear as non empathetic or think they're non empathetic are just exactly that which you describe as being not true to themselves. A person who identifies as empathetic basically just mean that person acknowledge and recognize the similitude of other people's emotion and their own. That this similitude exist isn't really a case of who is inside this room but who will recognize this happening. Emotions reflect whether that recognition is given or not. So I think someone identifying as not empathetic is simply using the mind construct of empathy to dissociate from a part of themselves.

Just keep in mind that while you are in the same room as someone else, they have already entered your consciousness.