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Originally Posted by Brutha  Maybe your decision to connect with everyone one the street regardless of their personality changed you.
If you connect with everyone you might have unconsciously build an internal barrier that prevents yourself from feeling everybody's pain, to protect yourself. |
I don't think so. I'm used to feeling everybody's pain. I've been connecting with everybody for a couple years before I began losing my empathy and getting harsher.
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Haven't you also moved to France in the last year? Maybe you can't connect as well with the people around you because you don't speak French natively. That might reduce the amount of empathy that you feel on a daily basis.
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I just moved back to France. I was born here and spent the first twenty years of my life here. That's enough to understand French.
But I think empathy isn't about language. You don't need to understand what someone is saying to feel their emotions. You don't need to read their body language or even to see them. It's all about feeling. You just feel it in your body. Or a little bit outside your body. You feel the feeling as if it was you having this feeling. Even when they're lying and pretending they feel something else. So it's not about language.
Empathy is a cool skill to have. In some way I'm sorry I'm losing it.