Do you show more consideration to inanimate objects than to other people?
Not on purpose, just normally, naturally.
I am not sure how often I do it, but today... when walking by a chair if I kicked it or something, I automatically say "I'm sorry" or "Excuse me".... and I said "pardon me" while going around a trash bag. My son brought it to my attention initially, and as I was watching him, he does it too.
I also get more upset when things are broken than when somebody is emotionally upset with me. I just go into meltdown mode automatically when someone is yelling at me for too long, or mad at me and won't tell me why... but with objects, I genuinely feel sad at times. There have been times in observing my son, looking back on it, when he's gotten hurt pretty bad (doing things like walking straight off of his bed without paying attention), but was more concerned as to whether or not his spaceship he was building out of legos managed to survive the fall.
I do feel for people, and try to be polite... don't get me wrong. But it is harder for me to figure them out, I guess... than for instance, a chair, which is visibly in my way, unable to move itself of course, but I ran into it anyway not watching. So I would likely say "sorry" to the inanimate object before saying it to the person who saw me coming and still opted to walk in front of me at the last minute... people are just more unpredictable, not set in stone... whereas with an item, if it's there, it's just there... if it's broken, it's visibly broken. No guessing games.
Does any of that make sense?
Are any of you like this, or do you ever notice it?
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Sorry about the incredibly long post...
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