Wishing you had no conscience

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25 Dec 2016, 4:37 pm

I felt like that when I was a kid & teen but my conscience isn't as bad as it used to be. I'm too much in my own world to feel too bad about things I'm not responsible for except I feel really bad when my girlfriend is feeling bad.

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26 Dec 2016, 10:12 am

When I feel overwhemed, stressed and tired by all the bad things happening in the world I just stop watching the news for a week or so. This makes me concentrate on trying to do what's right for my family, friends and neighbours whom I can sometimes actually help rather than making me stressed about the plight of thousands of people whom I can't do anything for.

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15 Mar 2017, 12:57 am

There's a reason why I wonder all the time what life would be like without grief and why people say life would be bland without it. And I'm all like, "Why didn't we all evolve to be psychopaths and s***? Wouldn't life be better if love, empathy, and similar emotions didn't exist because all they do is turn us into softies and s***?"

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17 Apr 2017, 10:10 am

aja675 wrote:

I think I only have such wishes not because I truly want to be a psychopath, but more because I was unemotional when I was younger, like when I was 9-12, which for me was a period where I had outgrown the cry-baby tendencies of childhood and did not have teen angst yet, and when I learned to be more emotional, I wasn't prepared. You see, I come from one of the world's most emotional countries, and it's hard for said emotionality not to rub off on me.

It's not like my younger self was unable of sympathy, it's just that said sympathy was of the non-consuming kind. I guess I just keep myself in an emotional equivalent of the 40 Hour Famine, like I have the misguided belief that self-consuming neurotic guilt is a good way to approximate other people's self-consuming neurotic guilt.

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18 Apr 2017, 6:21 pm

There's a commercial on TV that says "You can lift the weight of caring by doing". :arrow:

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