I Noticed. I Always Notice. It's A Lot.
I know you. You noticed the slight shift in someone's tone halfway through a conversation and spent the rest of the day quietly turning it over in your mind. You walked into a room and somehow left carrying feelings that weren't even yours to begin with. I know you. Because on most days, I am you. And it's genuinely exhausting. I've been sitting with what it actually means to be someone who feels things at full volume. Not the romanticised version, but the real, unglamorous, sometimes overwhelming version of being a person who cannot, for the life of them, just let things go. You notice everything. The micro-expression, the message that came back two hours later with a slightly different energy, the thing that was said and the louder thing that wasn't. You are, essentially, a very sophisticated emotional radar. It really is an extraordinary thing to be. Feeling deeply has shaped everything good about you. The emotional intelligence that took others years to develop...