The Young Witch is an Empath

Last week, I was doing an information interview for a job (which I did not get, but they were very kind). I was discussing my service with City Year and particularly my work with one student. After I finished my story, the person I was talking with asked me if I would miss doing service moving into a more corporate job.

I thought for a moment. The fact is, my story with the student dealt more with my magic and empathic abilities. This student was one I felt a pull from during service and to be honest I didn't know why. Yet, when I heard their story, I knew.

"No," I answered, "I will seem to find someone who needs me."

It's the truth. I've had some sort of ability to draw to myself people who needed help or healing. I've almost always seemed to sense when someone was struggling, and they seemed to find me when they needed it most. I'd seen it time and again through friends, romantic partners and now my students.

Later that day, my friend Kate FaceTimed me and I told her the conversation joking my abilities were a curse.

I will make you food again soon

"No, no," she smiled, "Not a curse."

Kate had been on the end of my abilities more than once. To be honest, I was worried she really didn't like me all that much or think I was that interesting our first conversation, but for some reason, I felt the pull again. At some point, she started knocking on my door in our dorm (she literally lived right down the hall), and that turned into a large amount of trust during a difficult situation.

Eventually, I moved into a house off campus and she moved into the campus apartments, but she still kept coming and I knew she would, because it happened almost every time I started baking. It was almost like I knew I would receive the text soon and had to prepare something for Kate's arrival (I'm not kidding, every time). She would come over and would talk about what ever was bothering her while eating whatever I had baked. It happened a lot. Like a lot, a lot. And she far from the only one.

My grandlittle also had this habit and was another person I was drawn to. I met them first at a sorority event, then again at a party. I tried to get them to talk and to get to know them, but they weren't much for talking at the time.

My little and grandlittle. I love them

Eventually, my little took them as a little, and they had interestingly enough had applied to the TV station at the same time, allowing me an opportunity for interrogation, finding out we were all too similar. That year I got to know them and love them, and again found the reason I had been drawn to them.

This has been the story of my life and I have been found it to be true for many. I have found the people who needed most and I have tried to be there for them, even when it was detrimental to my own health (the reason I call it a curse sometimes). But, I have always found that as much as I try to work my magic for them, they have always returned the favor in kind.

Lately, I've been posting a lot about COVID-19. Today though, I want to encourage you to find the people that need to you, to see who's pulling your string in need of help, to not only be there for them, but to allow them to be there for you. The magic doesn't lie.