Thinking

I saw this yesterday and it really rang home. I have often commented that I cannot work out people's motives, because I take what they say at face value. For me there aren't any lines to read between. They may be there alright, but if they are then they are invisible to me.
I certainly do have feelings. It's just that I don't always understand them, and have difficulty in showing or expressing them. I don't particularly care about people I don't know, but then perhaps I do, as I have a very strong sense of treating people properly and fairly, and am outraged bu such things as human rights abuses and social injustice.
I do have the 'compassionate empathy' bit too. I've always loved helping others, even more so when I've had to go out of my way to do it.
All these traits, however, leave one open to exploitation or abuse by the more predatory and unscrupulous in society.