I feel this way often too. I feel peoples' emotions, and even feel their physical pain. I feel the energy of the world, the sadness of the people hurting in wartime and natural disasters.
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Change: sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the times its both.
"Someday you might see who I really am, and it will change the way you feel about me." "Nothing could ever do that."
Made different to make a difference
whether as victor or vanquished, isn't it better than sullen resignation?