Caught up in the Catty

This post has a high potential to not make any sense whatsoever.

I’ve been a little too caught up in the stressful things of life lately. Too easily, I’ve been swept up in other people’s emotions or biases and I just need to step back and take a breath and remember that I have my own thoughts and opinions too.

I’m empathetic and compassionate to a fault sometimes. I want people to know I care about their concerns but lately I have found myself being caught up in someone’s issues and finding myself riding their ‘anger train’ with them.

I caught myself last week realizing that I didn’t like how I was acting or the things I was saying. That wasn’t me and that’s definitely not how I want to be or be seen to be.

As we get older I find that I need to take a lot more of these ‘breathers’. Stepping back and realizing the whole picture and not just one persons attitude to the subject. I hate getting immersed like that.