Empathy

I have learned about the meaning of this word the hard way: I discovered if anybody around me had a problem, I would live it like it was mine. And it still gives me nervousness, sadness or happiness the state of mind of the one next to me. So, I have learned in time that in a way I can be immune to all this torment going on around me: I have learned to travel with the earbuds boosting with music in my ears so I don't hear the crazy hectic world around me. And that is how I came to realise empathy can be defeated if you become an ignorant to the human problems and your life may become your own again. Because, I tell you, it's pretty difficult to have a life when empathising with strangers' problems. Ignorance is bliss!