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RE: The End to White Privilege is on the Horizon
Kahlil Gibran is a treasure. I like a lot what he wrote.
Thanks for that. I am really late with a reply. But got myself busy with useless conversations. I am having a really grumpy day.
Also taking too much sadness on. Doesn't do me good. So I must change some of my helping habits.
How are you?
I'll see if you wrote something.
Bye & sincere greetings to you.
Isn't he though! I grew up with Gibran. Read that book until it fell apart.
That's why I'd rather be sympathetic than empathetic. Empaths take on the pain of those around them. I refuse to do that.
Reread choose happiness and let that other stuff go.
What can I do? That is my greatest gift yet it's my greatest pain. If I wouldn't be empathetically skilled, the suffering of others wouldn't touch me. I don't think that I can choose what is the essence of my character. As I am a woman and have built in me this quality I take on that role. People call it mirror-neurons and stuff like that but in the end, it is the capability to feel what another one feels and to respond on that.
I need a guide myself once in a while and that is hard to find. Where I can discuss and reflect what's going on in me and how I can protect myself without withdrawing completely.
For the role of men (who also are good empaths, I don't want to paint it all one dimensional) mostly male roles should provide something different from females instead of competing with them.
Does that make sense to you?