Sometimes, I hate having empathy. Sometimes, I feel like I don't have a "right" to feel the way I do. Like when I see someone else's pain, and it so overwhelms me. I don't feel like I deserve to feel sad about that. I feel like other people with "legitimate" claims to sadness look and me and think "She's just an emotional whore. Who is she to feel this way? I lost a mother, or a friend, or a companion, and she's just on the periphery. She's sad because I'm sad? She's grieved because I am? She has no right."
You have a right to feel however you feel. Be thankful for that gift, it's what makes you kind.
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