Special moments happen when you least expect them.
Last week I was watching random videos and I came across one of my favorite songs. The artists were older and the beat was slower, but as I sang along I felt like I was sharing the moment with them. I know it may sound crazy but because we felt the same way, we were for a moment the same person.
This is what I often feel in life. Being an HSP makes my empathy automatic. Its hard to turn it off. I often feel as I talk to people how they might feel, or what they say that they feel. While it can be helpful at times to be able to understand people, I have learned that I have to turn this off because otherwise it is too emotionally exhausting.
So paradoxically, HSPS can be the most emphatic or the least. We have a right to have feelings and not always be consumed by others feelings.
Why am I sharing this? I was just killing time watching random videos but as the moment happened it felt like something more than it was. I can’t describe it exactly, but it felt like one of those core experiences in my life that I can’t imagine living without. Certain core experiences shape us, but we ultimately determine the meaning from it and the direction our life will take.
Create moments in your life you want to remember, and you will always cherish their memory in the future.