the first time i felt empathy
i hope this doesn’t break the mental health rule, but i think of this a lot and i really wanna tell someone
i was only in 2nd grade i think, and i remember this girl from the grade below us was crying in the field at recess, everyone was kind of staring and confused and didn’t know what to do so i went to her and hugged her and i started crying too, and didn’t know why. she told me her grandfather passed and i said i was sorry. i remember not knowing why i was crying too. i never even knew grief yet. i was just sad because she was sad.
then my friend asked why i was crying, and was really really confused on why it made me cry. that friend ended up being a really toxic human who stole from me, and got held back in highschool, so i think that’s kind of interesting.🤷♀️