Is it normal to feel bad when anyone's insulted?

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I feel quite bad if someone's insulted in front of me or anywhere for that matter. Whenever I am introduced to someone I feel connected to them and safe around them (I guess it's called humanity). So if anything bad happens to them from that point onwards I get protective towards them! Even if they care for me or not, doesn't matter! As long as you spread love, encouragement & positivity you'll have people around even in your darkest times! Is it too weird & crazy to think that way?

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  • Energy
    9 years ago

    Very normal. Empathy is a rare but amazing quality these days.

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  • [Old Memory]
    9 years ago

    Maybe they shouldn't get their feelings hurt so easily. Encouraging people to be oversensitive is almost worse than the person who makes the insults.

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  • Geni
    9 years ago

    You have a strong sense of empathy, from the sounds of it. I might not connect with everyone to the point that I would try to defend thier 'honor', but do end up feeling this way when something happens to someone that I feel did not deserve it.

    I do agree a bit with Bugs, that some times it's good to help people cultivate the ability to let things go, 'like water off of a duck's back', but once in a while, there really is a time when it might be a friends job to stand up for some one.

    This happened with me and a girl I used to have as a room mate. I'm not really one to get up in some one's face, I tend to be kind of shy and quiet till I get the feel of another person and learn how to get along with them. But every once in a while, something happens to some one I know, and a part of me says 'enough!'. I didn't even really know this girl super well, our likes and schedules meant we lead two separate lives, but she had this guy that had been all really nice to her, and super sweet for a good while. Then after we all left for summer vacation, he came back, and some times, he'd get really mean, accusing her of things like cheating. And she really liked him, so she would get sad to the point of being in tears. I was in my room one night, and heard them in the living room, him talking to her that way, and her bawling her eyes out, and I just felt so bad for her, and that he kept treating her like that....my normal shyness vanished, and I went out there and gave him a verbal lashing and told her directly that if he was going to keep treating her like that, then he wasn't worth her time or her tears. To this day, I can still kind of remember the stunned look on his face. I think I might have actually scared him. He left her alone, she was sad, but eventually got over it. The almost odd thing to be though, was the fact that while I told him off, I'd run into him off and on at school, and was never mean to him, and would even say hi. While I told him off, part of me wondered what had happened while he was on vacation that had caused him to act so different. When I'd met him before, I'd liked him myself. So I guess I was the one that got them to break it off, but I worried about him too.

    Empathy is a wonderful, but some times very funny, confusing thing. But it is very good that there are people who have it.

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