empathy awry

have you ever noticed how one person's mood can change the entire dynamic of a place? i guess it's herd behavioral skills or something, unconscious sensitivity to changes in our environment. who knows, but it can certainly catch you off guard. all of a sudden, you want to hit things and it takes a while to realize what happened and mentally override it. positive moods are contagious too, but i don't notice them as much; they don't affect me nearly as strongly or give me that sort of sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. and i don't think i was this responsive to any of it until recently, but maybe it was just typically me in the funk. at any rate, it's a strange sort of thing, and i'm not altogether sure i'm fond of it. it's definitely interesting to watch it ripple, though, if you can detach yourself enough.

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p.s. isn't the world amazing?