The Feed

I had a realization while watching a series: empathy is not always a beautiful trait. Sometimes, it is just pain that learned how to recognize itself in other people. We glorify empathetic people without questioning what made them that way in the first place. Because truly understanding someone’s pain usually comes from having survived something similar yourself. Otherwise, it’s sympathy. And maybe that’s why “you won’t understand” hurts so much.

Just an internal monologue i had on ice...