Alma.Innovadora
Dagobah Resident
So I mentioned mom, dad, partner, wife, husband as we are close with these people emotionally but also from a reality/life sharing survival data decision making standpoint so emotions are triggered in us from a caring or other emotional center vibration but also from physical safety and intellectual decision making standpoint. My point is it’s more than just emotional.
I practically walked "alone". The way I was raised led me to family detachment. I don't have brothers, I don't want marriage, I haven't had wives and I don't know what it feels like to want to have one or to want to have children. I really don't want to create a family in this world. Those kind of emotions are not part of me.
Could you describe what it would be beyond the emotional?
A stranger or non emotional/survival “associate” person we don’t interact with from a sharing reality/life data decision making the same way as immediate family or close friend or partner thus it is not logical to have the same reaction towards them even if they do the same thing. You may use the word indifference I just think it’s wasted energy and silly to have the same reaction toward everyone/situation equally so by default there will be “indifference”
No, it's not that you react the same with everyone, I'm precisely saying the opposite. Acting correctly with strangers unconsciously unlike when we do it with people with whom we have a distorted emotional bond.
If a stranger offends you on the street, it doesn't matter to you, because there is no emotion that gets in the way, there is no bond. If a close person offends you in the same way, you fall into depression for 10 years because you attach importance to his words, actions, etc. Did I explain myself better?
@Liliana said something close about one of the many examples. That's partly what I was referring to.
It's not silly if it helps you make a healthier decision or momentarily redirects you to a good port. It depends on the circumstance of each individual.
I was pointing out emotion AND survival/reality sharing people are different than JUST emotionally close people. (I believe this answers your first quote from my response)
It depends on the type of consciousness of those people according to your own level at some point in life. I had some nice times, but I walked away because it was just leading me to alcohol addiction and other things. They didn't suit me in any sense because we weren't doing anything "collinearly" productive. I talked better with street people and homeless people about life and their objectivity than with "friends" and relatives.
Regarding indifference I more look at situations, what happens and who is involved and the involvement that dynamic has in my life. I don’t shut down empathy or caring however I choose not to act on emotions triggered by certain people or things. I don’t have indifference in my centers I control or choose when they are acted upon.
Of course, but you are talking to me already from a point of view in which you can already have a certain degree of control, I am talking when a person has no control over anything and the signs are presented in the middle of situations to be glimpsed briefly precisely to help you on your way to having some control.
For example recently I gave my lighter to a homeless man when I was walking in the city because he asked me for “a light” my friend looked at me and said why did you do that.
I calculated the situation as:
1) I only smoke cigars infrequently
2) I didn’t need the lighter for the rest of the night
3) I have another lighter at home.
4) I felt in my emotional center a “feeling bad” for the man but because of who he is in my life and the situation I didn’t choose to ask why he is homeless, or give advice or try to help in a meaningful way - Is this indifference or just calculating the situation and making a choice?
I was indifferent to the homeless man from a decision making/reality/life sharing standpoint. He didn’t invoke empathy in me at the level someone close would or my emotions in general I viewed it as a being wanted something I had and I can spare it and was being altruistic (in a very small way) by not just giving a light but giving the lighter for many future lights…
Well, that for me would be over-thinking things. If you have an lighter you can only be kind or not be kind.
I had a person who always asked me for money and because I didn't know how to say no and because of fear and above all because here the reason for giving money to a homeless person is very different from the one you raise. They are not homeless here, they are drug addicts that if you don't give them, they can even rob you as retaliation or worse, so giving them money is more like buying your security on the street.
And in that case, well, I am not in the obligation to maintain their vices.
I don’t really concern myself with what majority of society does (maybe I should more) I more look at my life the people regularly in it and how I can be “better” improve and create holistic dynamics. I and we as being only have so much bandwidth to give.
Yes, it will depend exactly on what you express, your focus and how you invest your energy. The opposite happens to me, to "make my bed".
Now I try to pay attention to people in general as what they are "the other faces of God" that are manifested in their reason for being in life, in my life. And boy did they surprise me.
People who have been lonely in a great way, the signs are a little different in their way of manifesting to those who have ample friends or family 24/7, who listen to them, who go out to distract themselves, to share a drink and talk about something or about this material if they are collinear, or at least that they can be counted on one hand. I just have my head, signs and this forum.