"what's wrong?"

I feel like so many people confide in me, and that's both a good and a bad thing.

The good: At least I know you trust and appreciate me enough to value my point-of-view and therapy.

The bad: I'm a Cancer. If you don't believe in signs (I can't help it; my family lives by them - that's for another topic, though), that's to say that 9 times out of 10 I will take in everything you say and internalize it. Your problems become mine. Unless you're talking about something that is just totally...totally...not of interest to me, it's nearly guaranteed.

I don't attempt to be the psychiatrist anymore than a friend should attempt to help their other friends but I'm good at it. I just want what's best for everyone. People like it when you can get on their level emotionally and they can just open up. It's probably one of my best traits.

Oh, and I love to talk. And listen, so I can talk more.

The thing that I must fess up to is that I can't save the world. I've gotten burned out from hearing so many emotional-wreck stories. I've tried to talk to those people who are in an endless cycle of self-doubt and negativity and, while I can relate because I rescued myself from that years ago, they really have to discover the truth for themselves.

You have to cut someone loose to save them? Now if that isn't the biggest oxymoron...

Maybe I should think about it this way then: I have to cut someone loose to save me.