Most of the human race feels empathic towards friends and family, some even feel empathy to those that they feel are being mistreated or disrespected. But the question here is empathy a power?
I don’t mean the common empathy that is built into us as a race, which we used in the dawn of time before words. I mean the empathy that allows people to feel things that have passed. Don’t look like that, I’m serious. Some (and I can’t say how many) people “feel” things that may have happened. Walking into a derelict hospital that is in ruin, most people think about the sick people that were there and some even think about the operations and tools used, but how many of us can say they feel the dread collecting in the waiting rooms? Or the joy? The excitement in the maternity ward? Obvious feelings due to the locations, I know. But could you tell the difference between the contentment of successful procedures and the pain of the terminally ill, in the same room?
Just because the maternity ward is for expectant and new mothers, why is it all happy thoughts that surround people? Why is there never any evidence of the reluctant mothers? The Grandparents-to-be that are furious with their child for “being foolish”?
Many people that believe in the paranormal believe that Empathy goes hand in hand with a Psychic ability.
So I ask, is this kind of Empathy a power?
In my humble opinion every person feels empathy in one form or another. Some have little empathy and others have greater empathy, but I think that some are much more empathic to the extent that they can feel this that have long since passed. I can walk through a field and feel children playing, people fighting and sometimes a settling feeling that can only be found in a dwelling. I can be suddenly overtaken by a calm, serene feeling in the middle of a shop in a small town, possibly because it was once a home. I can walk a town wall and feel complete pride and importance. Stand at the edge of a cliff and feel like I can keep walking forward and no harm will come to me from falling (this is not a god complex). But I cannot say I have had any psychic experiences myself.
So. How empathic are you?
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