How Being an Old Soul Makes You Unique

Embrace that you are different from the world.

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Today one of writing students told me that I am an old soul who has been here before.

I felt flattered and touched by her comment.

It hasn’t been the first time that I have been told that I am an old soul.

Perhaps I am but what makes me an old soul? Why does that phrase make me feel distinguishable and different from others?

I have always felt different since I was a kid. I felt like I looked at the world with a bigger lens. I soaked in people’s stories and emotions like a sponge.

I felt things about people and could “read” them intuitively very well.

Being an old soul to me is one who has a heightened sensitivity to life.

Someone who has the ability to think deeper beyond the surface and generate wisdom from within.

Whenever I think of an old soul I think of these signs:

1. Empathic — Old souls tend to be highly empathic individuals. They carry the weight of the world on their shoulders. They are sensitive to everyone’s needs but their own. They want to rescue. They want to heal you. They know what…