> I want to come back to echoism for a second because that term just blew my mind the second I heard it. My deepest fear is someone calling me a narcissist. Nothing hits me in the feelings harder. The truth is, as an empath I desperately want to change the world, as cheesy as that sounds. I dream every day of a world where everyone genuinely loves each other, is compassionate, reflectively listens, and hears each other's feelings. Simultaneously putting myself out into the spotlight to talk about that is horrifying. The term echoism really helped me understand why and realize for the longest time I would rather have remained quiet and liked by everyone but generally never voiced an opinion than actually voiced an opinion and have to deal with the negative repercussions of someone else not liking me. I simply couldn't sit with that discomfort, the idea of someone not liking me was so painful. And people say it all the time, but not everyone's gonna like you. People don't like you because your walk triggers them or something, so do the thing anyway, and practice it, it's hard but we can do this! .float-right ZAgo0K-xM