Last year, my speech/public speaking class professor spoke a lot about empathy. What that has to do with speaking, I don’t really know, but I took what she taught to heart and really tried to go about life putting myself in “everyone else’s shoes.” But that ended with me being hurt a lot by people.
Now, though, I really don’t care. And when I do try to care or show that I care, the people I’m trying to show it to end up reminding me why I stopped being empathetic and started being 90% apathetic. Not giving a fuck is an amazing way to go about life. And I don’t mean in the sense of “Oh, boohoo, no one cares so I don’t care about them.” I’m talking about it in the sense that I generally don’t worry about other people’s problems anymore, just as they generally don’t care about mine. It’s nice. It’s really peaceful and calming. The other 10%, well… I care about you either way.
