Having empathy means trying to personify a person’s perspective, emotions, and feelings.
It’s not just a feeling. It’s an ingrained feature of our species. It is as powerful as the sense of hunger or fear. Mirror neurons in the brain help you react by mimicking the activity of the brain of the sufferer.
Empathy is useful, but it has its dangers…
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Existential dilemmas may arise when you question your purpose or place in the world. More specifically, it stems from fears or questions about your life’s meaning or the nature of the universe.
Life can be hard and cruel so our fears and questions are understandable
Since pain is unavoidable, the most important thing becomes understanding the nature of the pain – Why is it happening? Who is triggering it? Who has the power to add to or remove it? What is it’s rewards? Then you decide what to do (or not do)
I like reading because it stretches my mind, expands my experience vicariously, toughens my psyche, builds my vocabulary, entertains me, educates me, and encourages me.
A creative outlet is something you do to focus. It helps you express your creative energy, emotions, and thoughts. Creative outlets usually feel like play and are fun. They have also been found to have vast health benefits.
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Climate change and increased rainfall frequency cause flooding, amongst other natural factors. But flooding can also be anthropogenic (i.e. human-induced), and one way humans do this is through littering.
I am not sure God is angry with you because many of us have thought, said, and done unspeakable things yet we haven’t experienced any divine retribution like in the old testament stories.
Someone with good values (like love, honesty, loyalty, courage, etcetera) will seek and do the right things, even if it doesn’t feel good. While someone with bad values (like domination, violence, pleasure, etcetera) will seek and do the wrong things, most likely because it feels good.
How then do you shape your values, to nudge yourself into doing good deeds?
When I was 13, I saw a dead body for the first time; and it was rotting.
A young man was caught and set ablaze earlier in the day, for stealing Garri at the waterside market…
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Our world can be cruel and wild, which makes keeping your morals challenging. Because in the attempt to engage with the world, we are often confronted with tough choices, and dilemmas leading to some sort of internal tension. In the case of our morals, it emerges as an ethical conflict.
