If you could wake up and be someone else for a day who would you be?

Me?

I’d be the person that doesn’t feel so deeply.

My life experiences are based heavily on how I feel in that moment. Every success in my life, like the one I experienced yesterday is met with incandescent happiness, trembling excitement, tears and gratitude. My setbacks and failures are met with a different set of tears, frustration, overthinking, and over-analyzing exactly where it all went wrong.

See, it’s really soul-shattering work being an empath. When a stressful situation arises, anyone else may simply be able to “let it go” with passive disregard, but not an empath. We begin a very deep dive of over-analyzing to even attempt to understand why something has happened. It is time consuming mental and emotional draining work. But it’s what we know. It’s what I know.

The innate ability I possess to feel not only my feelings, but the feelings of others is most legitimately a blessing. It allows me to connect with so many different and truly understand them. I would never trade it for anything in the world, but if I could take one day to not feel and rest my soul, I would.