The best advice I can give regarding this acrosstic, is that it is far better to observe than to absorb. Sure, people will tell you their negative stories, but their is no need to suffer with them. It is more effective to instead feel for them, and try to make them see a more positive side of the truth they find themselves in.
Of course it sometimes is true your powers are such that you can absorb their suffering, especially if you can use alchemy to transmute it into something more positive!