The Physics of Sorrow
“TIME BOMB (TO BE OPENED AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD) THE AGING OF AN EMPATH Once I could be in everything, be everything. Now, in the ineptness of my mature years, I wanted to gather up everything, as a small compensation for that which I had lost.
The aging of an empath is a strange and painful process. The corridors toward others and their stories, which once were open, now turn out to be walled up. House arrest in your own body.
Earlier, I would at times feel the need to shut myself up in the... dark, letting nothing awaken the empathy, to just sit like that in the healing darkness of the nothingness. To keep myself from scattering, to stop the influxes of other people’s sorrows and stories.
The only thing I want now is to remember a few days with that physical intensity of childhood, when I lived out everyone else’s story as my own. What was the diagnosis again—radical empathetic-somatic syndrome . . . I no longer embed, I only have memories of such embeddings—but what memories!MoreLess
The aging of an empath is a strange and painful process. The corridors toward others and their stories, which once were open, now turn out to be walled up. House arrest in your own body.
Earlier, I would at times feel the need to shut myself up in the... dark, letting nothing awaken the empathy, to just sit like that in the healing darkness of the nothingness. To keep myself from scattering, to stop the influxes of other people’s sorrows and stories.
The only thing I want now is to remember a few days with that physical intensity of childhood, when I lived out everyone else’s story as my own. What was the diagnosis again—radical empathetic-somatic syndrome . . . I no longer embed, I only have memories of such embeddings—but what memories!MoreLess
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