Do you feel bad when you see a disabled person ?

[Autistic_tendencies2]

The other day I saw an obese woman with one leg in a wheelchair struggling to roll herself ….

your situation can always be worse.

 

[twojei]

The other day I saw an obese woman with one leg in a wheelchair struggling to roll herself ….

your situation can always be worse.

What if what you are doing is simply projecting your own fear of being disabled onto her?

I wonder how much of our "sympathy" for others is simply seeing ourselves in them. There is this spiritual guy called Krishnamurti and he talks a lot about this topic. I hate to quote IA on this, but it simply explains it better than me:

According to Krishnamurti, the ego—the "self" or "me"—operates primarily through identification. When you see another person suffering, you might see a reflection of your own vulnerability, your own past sorrow, or your own fears. In this state, your sympathy is essentially a movement of thought saying, "That could be me," or "I know exactly how I would feel in that situation." [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

By identifying with the other person, you are actually occupied with yourself. You are projecting your own memories, conditioning, and feelings onto them, rather than seeing them clearly and directly.

I think an example of this is unsolicited advice. One could argue that apart from being unsolicited, it is offensive because the other person is not giving advice to you, but to the image he or she has formed about yourself which in turns makes it an advice about themselves, and thus it is egotistical and narcissitic, hence it is offensive.

Again, Gemini AI nailed it really well:

Self-Correction: They are essentially telling their own past self what to do, using you as a proxy.

 

[Jacob]

Yeah, I do.

 

[Dead_Person]

 

[Schwarzwald]

The other day I saw an obese woman with one leg in a wheelchair struggling to roll herself ….

your situation can always be worse.

Typically no, but a channel like this does make me feel a sort of way.

 

[Autistic_tendencies2]

What if what you are doing is simply projecting your own fear of being disabled onto her?

I wonder how much of our "sympathy" for others is simply seeing ourselves in them. There is this spiritual guy called Krishnamurti and he talks a lot about this topic. I hate to quote IA on this, but it simply explains it better than me:



I think an example of this is unsolicited advice. One could argue that apart from being unsolicited, it is offensive because the other person is not giving advice to you, but to the image he or she has formed about yourself which in turns makes it an advice about themselves, and thus it is egotistical and narcissitic, hence it is offensive.

Again, Gemini AI nailed it really well:

High iq explanation