simont | (no subject)

Ho hum. I feel unusually empathic at the moment. I'll read on LJ that some particular friend is unhappy, and five minutes later I'll be thinking ‘hang on, didn't I just hear that the world was ending, why am I still sitting at my desk?’. Then I'll remember exactly what it was I heard, and although it isn't good, rationally it doesn't present any reason why I should start panicking, so I'll tell myself to relax a bit. And five minutes later, same story again. My subconscious is amazingly good sometimes at picking up really subtle hints, but often astonishingly bad at taking in things SHOUTED AT IT LOUDLY AND CLEARLY.

On the other hand, it might not be empathy as such. I've also been rather ineffective recently when it comes to (e.g.) believing people care about me, so it may not be that I'm unusually empathic so much as that I'm unusually pessimistic at the moment, and eager to find any excuse at all to believe the world's ending…