[RascalPuff]

Empathy is frequently confused for 'mind reading'.

That is not what the blessing and curse of an extraordinary empath is.

The blessing is the clairvoyant vehicularized ability to feel what others feel and to thereby consort with and comfort them - assure veritably suffering individuals and groups that they are not misunderstood or alone.

The curse is the pain that the - inadvertant or vigilant - empath feels, in exchange for the emotionallly roller coasting gift that was betrothed them by Nature.

The gift and burden of above average empathy is rife with rewards, punishments and charleton pretenders who attempt to duplicitously capitalize on the subject.

Clearly, the entire world is in desperate need of more genuine empaths - to contribute to a more caring posture toward those in need of understanding and comfort.

Websters:
The experiencing of one's own of the feelings of another - the capacity for this.
Synonym: Sympathy.
Antonym: Insensitivity, arrogance, sadism.