Empathy.
What is empathy? Is it the overwhelming feeling of meeting new people, or the feeling of your heart so loud in your ears that you don't fully understand what's setting you off? It's both. And it's more. Empathy is the one thing that no matter who you meet you will feel something surging through your veins. It could be feeling their pain, happiness, anger, it could also just be your gut letting you know all of that and why you should or shouldn't associate with them. It is a blessing as much as it is a curse. It is troubling to feel everything so deeply and sometimes so suddenly it knocks the wind out of you and you and you become so overwhelmed by emotions you have no business even feeling. Powerful and overwhelming is how you could describe the feeling.
I'm the last person who should be able to experience this. I can hardly control and handle my own emotions that having someone else's thrown at you that are loud to the point it can drown out your own thoughts and feelings is pretty scary. I worry that people know I can feel their feelings. Will they think I'm a freak or just really good at reading someone? You can feel the energy radiating off someone and know the emotion, you live and feel the emotions. It's not something to take lightly.
My own emotional instability has made being an empath hard for me. I've never fully learned to successfully shield other's emotions out so I feel them pretty hard. My other issue is projecting my emotions out, I'm angry and my emotions are so strong that others become uncomfortable around me and I feel their energy and mood shifts. Empathy is something stronger than I ever knew I was capable of.
Being a witch has its perks of course. My empathy makes me a better witch ion the sense I know how to plan my magic and when I practice accordingly to the moods and emotions of who I live with. But, I never said I wasn't mischievous. I use my ability of projecting my emotions to sometimes get my way. With projecting sadness to get sympathy, to projecting anger to make someone do what I want to make me "feel better". I'm not a perfect, defiantly not a perfect witch. But I try not to project my emotions because it is wrong, but hey, a witch has got to have a little fun from time to time.
Empathy is being able to have sympathy for the Devil. No one else may, but you can. You don't see people as just people, you feel their emotions and are better able to understand them and can learn from their past if you feel emotions stronger from touch.
But overall practice. If you want to have that empathy to feel and you are strong enough to handle the emotions of others and can protect yourself, go for it. Don't let anyone stop you. Practice easy things first, practice on your mom or dad, siblings, boyfriends/girlfriend, best friend, or whoever. Just practice. Not being able to feel others emotions or energy doesn't make you less or more of a witch. Some people are better at things than others and that is 100% completely okay. You will never less than me or not a real witch in my eyes over something like empathy, not even if you don't do something every day.
Empathy is more than just feelings and emotions being projected and feelings them, it's learning about yourself and others through energy and emotional shifts. If anyone could have sympathy for the Devil, I know it'd be witches.
We are more than our emotions, so much more. No empathy will ever slow me down, it just makes me more compassionate in the long run.
