Had we had half the empathy we have for other people for ourselves, we, the society, the humanity in general would be in a much better place. Interestingly enough, it requires a lot of effort to actually have that for ourselves.

The reason for that might be, deep inside, we don’t believe that we deserve empathy or care, because we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions. For their actions, we make up a story of our choosing in a given situation. And we know our dark side and shortcomings and decide that it’s too much, and it’s not worth the trouble.

--

--

trying to learn how to think through writing

Get the Medium app

A button that says 'Download on the App Store', and if clicked it will lead you to the iOS App store
A button that says 'Get it on, Google Play', and if clicked it will lead you to the Google Play store