your empathy doesn't control you

there’s no one that you’re fighting. your empathy makes it so you feel like you’re fighting other people’s battles and struggles and hardships. you need to remember that you can only fight your own battles, and you cannot adopt other’s, intentionally or not. I know that this is exhausting but you will start feeling so much relief when you eventually learn to stop soaking up the negativity of others. if you need to, please see a therapist or someone that can give you professional advice because they can do so much more to help than I can, and it’s helped with my own hyper-empathy too.

good luck :)

selflessness depends more on sympathy rather than empathy! and the levels of empathy we have most times is what we were born with. but you can widen your sense of sympathy! be aware of the people around you and their emotions and be an open person. let people talk to you if they need to, become more in tune with your own emotions, reach out to people who you know are struggling, just make sure you’re not draining yourself by extending more of yourself than what can reach :)

hi there! it takes a lot of time to become genuinely happy and one of the first things that needs to happen is to be mindful of when you’re comparing yourself to others. when you do that you can feel like you’re unsatisfied and it can create a negative mindset where it’s always you versus someone else rather than you and your personal improvement. results will happen! it just takes time and effort :)