The Gay Letters, Thursday, March 25, 2021
"I can choose to empathize. Or I can choose to thrive."
Thrive Versus Empathize: think about it. If you need to stop thriving in order to empathize, then maybe what you are doing is morally incorrect. Being able to empathize is true thriving. However, when we focus on empathizing we notice there is more wrong with planet Earth than we had previously forgotten. How can we thrive when our history suggests that we will have a long period of unhappiness as we try to overcome and heal our history worse than death?
Here's another way to look at it: our species is instinctually empathetic. And so if we resist empathizing we twist up our insides because we can't help it.
On the other hand, choosing to thrive may be more empathetic because once you are in a position of luxurious thriving you may be able to help others more than you would have if you hadn't put yourself before others. But is that really the same as not empathizing?
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