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How Does an Empath Stay Focused In the Middle of All This Madness?
As an empath I feel all the anger, uncertainty, frustration, and negatives of others around me.
While on the one hand, living in interesting times (ala the Chinese curse) is quite the adventure. On the other hand — it’s really, really exhausting.
World leaders of the recent past and present have lost their ever-loving minds in the names of greed, narcissism, and control. Rather than do the reasonable and science-backed things to knock COVID-19 on its ass, leaders have given in to commercial and social pressures to pretend it isn’t a deadly virus and accepted millions of needless deaths in the name of the economy. The US Supreme Court and others taking away human rights and women’s body autonomy is infuriating — and defies reason (I don’t care if you make a religious argument here — we are NOT a Christian country, period end of story.)
My medieval society has had a COVID protocol in place since 2020. The overall society is lifting that in December. My local “kingdom” lifted it instantly upon that announcement. The outcry from many of my friends — though totally understandable — adds another layer of negativity, uncertainty, frustration, and general upset to the mix.
