All Chapters of A Little Empathy Is All We Need: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

  Since I've been able to think reasonably clearly, I've been amazed at my fellow human beings. I wonder about their actions, their actions, their fears and, when someone confides their thoughts to me openly and honestly, I usually wonder about them too. In the past I often believed something was wrong with me. I was of the firm conviction that I couldn't cope with my life as a person and as a severely physically disabled woman. I thought this until I met a friend at the age of 34 who finally taught me better with her way of thinking and her ways of thinking. From that point on, I was able to accept myself for who I was and change my position. I no longer allowed myself to be “observed” and “judged, but now observed and judged myself and independently. Through my conscious, meatless diet, my senses and thoughts became clearer and sharper. It became clear to me that nature is the only and true God who performed the miracle LIFE, watches over it and

 With a wild heartbeat, I woke up from my dream and rolled over on my back from the left side of my sleep. Still a little confused and with small eyes, I felt with my right hand for Momo, my white-gray-striped cat, who usually snuggled close to me every morning, deeply asleep. But that morning Momo wasn't there. I sighed softly and looked around the room, still dazed from sleep. Saw the walls that weren't quite finished. Only the one wall that I had decided to paint a rich, sunny yellow was already finished. But for the fact that we had only been living in this house in the Netherlands for almost three weeks, we had already made ourselves very comfortable. Only the bedroom was a bit neglected. Apart from our two-meter-wide bed, in which my maternal grandparents slept, and our wardrobe, we hadn't set up anything yet. Fortunately, our wardrobe was so cheap that I could choose my clothes from bed in the morning. The bed and the wardrobe were made of light wood and were in

He was also extremely humble. Nevertheless, I had been wondering for a long time whether this was all right. Because I absolutely did not know whether Jonas had found the perfect conversation partner in me that he so badly needed. I wasn't exactly a fool, but I was nowhere near as knowing as he was. I also kept asking myself if I was making him really happy. But so far he seemed happy with me. Anyway, he made me feel. “You just forget that Michael Ende also discovered this 'big part', as you call it, and wrote a beautiful book about it. The difference was that the little girl Momo noticed in her fantasy novel that the people around her suddenly had less and less time for each other and finally found out about the "gray gentlemen". Because these gray gentlemen stole the time from people to exist for themselves. Even if Momo discovered the secret of the gray gentlemen through intensive listening, which disturbed the quiet, harmonious coexistence of people wi

You should also have trusted me and my healing hands more. You would be of far greater help to your people if you had decided against this surgical procedure. You know that people generally interfere in other people's affairs. And they usually do not do this to really help their fellow human beings and to do them good, but because they simply want to drive away their boredom. With you, too, the people with whom you had closer contact made their boredom and their “oh so over-great pity” your problem with your disability. You have never suffered from your severe physical disability and never dreamed of being a non-disabled woman. Because you were born so severely physically handicapped and for this reason you don't know your life any other way! « "Yeah, I know!" I muttered. “But I got through the operation well. And the eternal pain in my right foot is almost gone. Besides, I didn't even know at the time whether my observation with your hea

 After I came back from the toilet, sat well in bed, Jonas had looked after our cats and made us a fruit tea with honey, I took Momo in my arms, took a deep breath and began my story: “It was just the year nineteen seventy for the creatures of the blue planet. It was on a very hot June night when I hit my parents' garden rather roughly. Because my birth father, who brought me to this planet and carried me in his arms for the last few meters, stumbled easily so that he did not manage to put me down very gently. I immediately started screaming loudly. The man who for years I believed was my biological father finally found me in the garden under the living room window. Carefully he lifted the sheet in which I was wrapped and looked into my small, wrinkled face. He carried me carefully into the house and showed me to his wedded wife, my mother. "Where did you find the little baby, Wolfram?

Well, it's your own fault!” Jonas reproached. But when he saw my sparkling eyes, he fell silent immediately and continued to listen willingly as I immediately began to tell again. “But back then, when I didn't yet know about my witchcraft, my gift of 'foresight' scared me terribly,” I said. “Sometimes I even felt as if I could hear what my interlocutors or my playmates were thinking. Often they were just scraps of her thoughts. Most often, however, I thought I could hear and understand scraps of thoughts from Finn, my friend with whom I had been friends since childhood. Several times I wondered if it was because we had such a close bond. Because he, too, often seemed to know exactly what or what I was thinking about. However, it should take years before I properly perceived and recognized this phenomenon.I was also plagued by nightmares that haunted me during a few nights of my childhood. I kept dreaming of huge, scary-looking fig

When I was forty-six, my aunt in law told me that my mother's father was a staunch Nazi and had actively served Adolf Hitler. From then on, I was able to see my mother with completely different eyes and understand her limitless suffering. I also suffered from this knowledge and was deeply ashamed of my grandparents until the end of my life. From the moment I found out about my Nazi grandparents, I distanced myself completely from people and developed into a convinced, completely happy loner. I tried and tortured myself from my earliest childhood to be like the others. Unfortunately, over the years I had already copied and appropriated a great deal, too much, from the people here. And this made me sad and downright angry now and then. But in the end this realization of being different and not wanting to belong under any circumstances allowed me to discover the real me and actually become a deeply satisfied person. Strangely enough, a few days after I moved to boarding sc

At some point I learned from reports that Christian society saw laughter as diabolical. Hearty laughter was forbidden centuries after Christ. However, I also heard that laughter came before humans developed. So we inherited the laughter that came from the bottom of our hearts from the animals! (Who else could have brought so much happiness and warmth into our world ... ??? !!!)The term ›the creatures without hearty laughter‹, which we invented for you, is not meant to be evil! We have our own special nicknames for all of the inhabitants we discovered on busy planets.Furthermore, I not only noticed that my fellow human beings did not have a real sense of humor and happiness, but I also felt that most of them looked quite unhappy, sad and lonely. And it seemed to me that people were more or less just living side by side instead of living together. So I wish I could change something on earth. For a moment I thought about writing a book about life. I wanted

Well, for some unknown reason I was attracted to you from the very first moment, which you probably felt," Jonas explained, taking my chin between thumb and forefinger and kissing me tenderly on the mouth. “Tell me, how did it come about that I remained your patient? Because normally you should only treat me until your colleague was back from vacation, right? ”I only noticed now. “Yes, yes, that's probably true. But because I found you to be a sympathetic and interesting patient, I wanted to continue treating you. I wanted to know a little more from you. Because you fascinated me in some way, ”my husband explained to me that morning, his cheeks slightly red. “Besides, just looking in your eyes made me feel safe, secure, and understood in the strangest way. At the same time, however, this also caused me a little bit of unease, I honestly have to admit. Yes, your eyes seemed magical. But as a hobby magician I knew

“No, that can't be said,” it came dryly and very promptly from Jonas' mouth, “because when I looked into your talking brown eyes for a few seconds, I could clearly see the jealousy in them. Yes, I know, it may sound like I am mightily convinced of myself. But I knew very soon that you liked me and also raved about me a little, even though you had told me about Finn several times. "I kissed Jonas on the tip of his nose with a smile. Because I knew that in reality he was an incredibly humble and reserved person. And he too went through many unpleasant things in his life. But for this very reason he was perhaps such a lovable and pleasant person who was liked by many people. And for the very first time in my life I had the limitless beautiful feeling of loving someone through and through in the most honest way.Yes, Jonas had awakened feelings and a love in me that I had never felt for a person before and could in no way explain or name. I just loved hi