(#5940) I love my empathy

      My empathy is what defines myself to me. How I react emotionally to different behaviors and outcomes in the panoramic view I have on life is my modus operandi. Over time and space I am at a place where I have a comprehensive sense about what is good in the world. So when my empathy kicks in at a level that I become immersed within it, I know that something special is about. To me that is my life gauge. Without this gauge I would be less human and more automaton. Which I am very grateful not to be. For one reason the lack of empathy must be a confining space when in association with so many who are empathetic. For another reason the lack of empathy would deprive me of another sense that helps us to nurture our species into an even greater evolving human being species.
     The catch phrase of empathy being human is noteworthy in that not only is it generally true but it does play a role in our ability to survive. My blog post is built upon the two premises of care and wonder. The care part is the empathy that we own within ourselves to feel our emotions in acceptable natural order. I do not suppress my emotions out of some duty to a code that has no real purpose other than to deny how I feel. I do contain my emotions out of respectful civility but never do I relinquish the genesis of the experience. It would be disingenuous of me to deny myself a natural emotive behavior out of some one else's perception of decorum. In other words, I will feel my empathy, period!
     To hear some people talk of empathy as a degenerating and negative paradigm, is to put it mildly, horseshit! Empathy is the fuel that fires my engines of life. Because I care is why I live. Without my empathy I would just be a shell of a human being pretending to be more than I am. I don't live to pretend, I live to exist in reality with all that makes me human. I am proud to be a full functioning human being who not only has the mindset and strength to fight and defend but I am also able to feel the weight of the interactions that most always stem from some kind of harm. Those with no empathy are so much less than human that I would have to classify them as subhuman. Not as a matured human being species that can feel and understand the current turbulences of life that not only we ourselves experience but what others experience as well.