RE: Let's talk about the 'tyranny of happiness'
January 27, 2017 at 1:19 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2017 at 1:20 pm by SteelCurtain.)
It's a fine line. I do think as a society, we're growing. We are learning that we cannot fit everyone into the same box. So what works to cheer me up may not be the same for you, and that doesn't mean there is anything wrong with either of us.
It's odd and not a little creepy to tie it to sex, but one of the best lessons I ever learned as a young man was that not all women are the same. I thought I figured women out when I was like 19, and that was 100% not the case. Damned Rubiks' Cube, the lot of yinz.
So I think that's the first step. Understanding that everyone's needs are different. Be empathetic---make them feel that you are at least attempting to understand what they are going through, and then let them know you are there for them.
Is the next step up to them or you, though?
It's odd and not a little creepy to tie it to sex, but one of the best lessons I ever learned as a young man was that not all women are the same. I thought I figured women out when I was like 19, and that was 100% not the case. Damned Rubiks' Cube, the lot of yinz.
So I think that's the first step. Understanding that everyone's needs are different. Be empathetic---make them feel that you are at least attempting to understand what they are going through, and then let them know you are there for them.
Is the next step up to them or you, though?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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