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Have you ever felt really sorry for somebody with no real reason?

Sometimes I'll find myself thinking about somebody and all of sudden just feeling really bad for them. I don't always have a reason. Sometimes it's people I don't even know; I'll just see somebody and start feeling bad for them. It's kind of hard to explain exactly what I mean. You must think I'm crazy.
 
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Not so much really empathy... but sometimes I'll just see someone who doesn't look happy, or looks depressed or something... and i pray for them...

There was a guy who was lifeguarding at the pool at camp, that my best friend and I came to the conclusion that he cuts. ("design" scratches on his arms and legs, a cross...) Well, to me, he looked very sad and depressed. And I have a thing to make people smile, or laugh... especially if they don't look very happy to begin with. Somehow through saying something to one of the kids, I got him to smile... I felt accomplished that day, because he looked like the type of person to keep to himself all the time, and didn't fit in.. and I really like those kinds of people. When I think about him, I pray for him...

Not really the same as being empathetic towards people, but kind of just "urges" to pray for people.
 
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Not really, to be honest. The more I think about them, the more I feel bad for them.
 
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Yea, that's very similar to what I mean. I'll just see some people and come to the conclusion that they are unhappy or depressed, even though there is not necessarily any evidence to back it up. For all I know, they could be the happiest people in the world.
 
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Sounds like a gift to me to. Maybe you're a man with a heart like God's, you can see beyond the simple appearance but it seems you don't fully understand what's happening.

Pray to God for guidance.

I will be praying for you.
 
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Hi DreamTheatre,

Empathy is a subject which I like a lot. I have the gift of empathy. I know when someone is not doing well and I can actually feel the pain that that person is going through. Negative or sad emotions get to me so easily. Even through the 'Net. I'm like a sponge. I have to protect myself by praying much so that negativeness or sadness won't crush me. Sometimes it's impossible to keep the latter from crushing my spirit as they are too strong. I pray and God delivers me.

I've always been like that myself. Ever since I'm a little girl. But I was very close to Jesus as a little girl.

I'm so sensitive that I can bearly watch movies. Actually, I watch movies but rarely because I become too emotional. As if I was the characters themselves. While watching a movie, I feel rage if there is rage, anger if there is anger, sadness if there is sadness, happiness if there is happiness. The feelings can be so intense that it can become unbearable. So, I abstain from watching movies most of the time. Why make myself go through so many emotions for nothing?
 
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As a child i was seriously empathetic (or just pathetic if you prefer )

I would 'feel' other peoples pain, literally feel their heartache or suffering...I thought everyone felt that way until i realised that they didn't and then i felt i was a freak. I was regarded as overly sensitive and maybe a bit neurotic (certainly these day's i am still, it seem's)..i had numerous trips to the doctors for abdominal migraine, my parent's were informed that this was largely due to my 'worrier nature'..i worried about everyone and everything..though i prefer to think that i was concerned about everyone and everything...from before i was even 9 or ten i would write poetry about suffering and pain , particularly concerning those countries ravaged by warmongering...

When i was nine i wrote this, (i can't remember the other verses)

Dead bodies lie on the battlefield
Carnage all around
Soldiers that died so bravely
Their blood seeping into the ground..


...It's hardly suprising i was socially stunted! What a seriously depressive and odd child i must have apeared
 
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