Dealing with other people’s emotions.

I’m great at dealing with my own emotions, because I’ll find a way to make sense of it or just deal. It’s insensitive to tell people “just deal” when it comes to their problems though. When someone tells me about something their upset about I honestly have to keep my initial reaction to myself and response with great empathy first. I still manage to slip in a few cold words I thought would help deeming myself as insensitive to some. I assume the responsibility of consoling them just because someone is telling me their problems, which is a problem in itself. It’s usually women too which has got me thinking how delicate just dealing with another person’s feelings is and how much I’m not looking towards or ready for it.

It’s a drag thinking about other people’s feelings when most of their issues are either laughable in my eyes, or hopeless. I always feel like I’m suppose to say a close-to-perfect solution, especially with women because threshold of making women more upset than they already are is huge. I feel like I’m going to grow up to be Ray Romano.