Confessions Of A "Deep Feeler"
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Confessions Of A "Deep Feeler"

It really is a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very deeply.

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Confessions Of A "Deep Feeler"
GuoGuiyan

Surely, we are all familiar with cause and effect. We’ve learned about in elementary school and even studied it in our high school biology and English classes. In our everyday lives, our emotions play a huge role in each of our “cause and effect”.

In fact, our emotions are huge motivators of our actions. Our emotions are the reason why we feel love, hatred, anger, happiness, sadness, and well, so on and so forth. Some of us feel these things way differently than others. Many people, such as myself, feel these emotions amplified. There is a familiar saying that states “It is both a blessing and a curse to feel everything so very deeply.

I can say that I agree with this saying on so many different levels. When you feel happiness, you feel it to the max - as though nothing can bring you down. You feel happiness as though you have never felt it before or haven’t felt it in a while.

When you feel sadness, well… it’s this overpowering feeling of despair, hopelessness and agony. The funny thing is is that you don’t always feel it for yourself, but you do feel it for other people. In fact, the feeling is actually more overpowering when you feel it for someone else. When we see someone who is hurting, we hurt with them.

Having deep feelings can also be very dangerous. Not only for you, but it can hurt those around you. - Especially those who love you the most.

As much as I hate to say it, I am a true, living example of this.

To me, anger is one of the most dangerous emotions. Of course, we are all human and tend to get angry from time to time. - and that’s not a bad thing. However, for some people, it is pretty toxic. It can make you do or say things that you do not mean, and it can cause you to hurt people who don’t even deserve it. I’ve witnessed this not only in myself but in my family and even some of my friends.

It’s okay to be angry, but please be careful in how you choose to express your anger. (I’m talking to myself, too.) Being a “deep feeler”, however, does not make you any less of a person. I do understand what it’s like for people to tell you that you’re “reading too deeply into things” or that you’re “thinking too hard” about one thing or another.

Feel deeply.

Love hard.

Be angry, but don’t hurt those around you.

Keep your heart open, be good to the people in your life, but be sure to be good to yourself, too.

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