You are certainly not the only one who has been through it – I go through it every day just as you, and I actually think the reflections on this is great. How would we learn and experience new things, if we chose to say that the bucket was full?

The trick is just to keep searching for answers. I guess, we should implement a hole in the bucket, so that there will always be room for new knowledge and questions. For me, this post was not about refusing to get an answer about the change of eye color. It was about getting further into it, just to see how related it was to the empath ability.
Not from the topic on EC, but from a previous observation I had made, because I have grey eyes that changes fairly drastically at times.

So I too have been filling my bucket with the same thoughts.
And I kept filling it and found a reliable (boring) answer.

Do your eyes change colour:

a) less than mine?
b) as much as mine?
c) more than mine?

if u answered mostly b)… then u r an empathy!!!

In fairness, I too have a urgent need to use empathy as an explanation for everything that demands an explanation in my life. Realising that I was an empath made me very… excitable. And I look back now with embarrassment at how I spammed the forums every day with my excited chatter.

I guess the problem is when it survives a transition from temporary “excited chatter about this new phase in my life” to “this is what we now believe about human empathy”.

Yet when I read it I found myself thinking “People always have told me how my eyes are always changing colour…” which just shows how I can’t even trust my own brain. I’m still at the “Empty Bucket” phase with empathy: where I hold my mind out like an empty bucket and shout “Fill me! fill me with anything that comes to hand! it’s all good!”

And even now I find myself thinking “Changes in the appearance of the eyes are associated with psychic activity in film and television..” which just goes to show how desperately I need to live at peace with both sides of an argument and why I still cant trust my own brain.