As a self-diagnosed Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), I often sense what people around me are feeling and thinking. Lately, I've been getting strong signals from an acquaintance, but I can't exactly figure out what those signals mean. There's a discomfort in my friend's midst--is she ill, is one of her loved ones ill, or is she worried about a matter. I've not wanted to pry, but soon I'll reach out and ask. I suspect it's a fairly minor worry, but a worry nonetheless.
I grew up in a home that didn't talk a lot about feelings, and that's why I've learned to try to figure out the clues around me about what's going on. Rather than deal with issues in a straightforward way, there was a lot of quiet avoidance and denial when it came to the issues at play. So to figure out why people were acting the way they were acting or saying what they were saying, I often had to be a detective who used many clues to figure out what was really going on. Perhaps that's why I'm such a straight forward person now. The guessing takes a ot of time and causes a lot of discomfort. Instead, I'd rather simply try to understand a situation up front and then deal with it.
Yet, some situations are not easy to understand, so we genty have to tread ahead and help one another as well as we can.