On one of the return trips from airport to home, the driver was Jamaican and named Danny. I tried to strike a conversation with him by mentioning that I just read about Jamaica on the flight. 'What about Jamaica did you read?' Then he mentioned that he did not go to Jamaica in the last twenty years. So he is not going to get me free tourism information.
He spoke about how he feels that unfortunate people who do not have enough to provide for themselves should be helped and about how he is not actually helping them himself because by doing that he would make them dependent on him and that making someone else dependent on oneself even in the slightest sense is not a fair thing to do to the other human being. Also, by just providing the poor man free food, he would make the poor man lazy.
These thoughts can be interpreted as genuine or as escapism. Danny feels sorry for the unfortunate people but does not really want to give out his own money to help them out and feels guilty about it and hence cooked up for himself the theory that he just spoke about in the last paragraph. I would not be surprised if he means it genuinely as I agree to everything he says.
The reason Danny made a place in this blog is that he echoed the exact thread of thoughts that I have running within myself. I believe I paved this neural pathway of thoughts in the early years after I got my job. I am unsure if I myself am sincere / I am just trying to justify non-action.
The striking thing was that a man is here on the other side of the continent from when I had run through this exact same thought stream. It is truly amazing that we pave the same roads. It is a statement about universal brotherhood(same-ness). We are all essentially the same.
This is the second time I have been surprised with someone expressing my inner thoughts which I have never spoken about to anyone. The first instance was with Mithun, a colleague who spoke about how even when you do things for others, you are essentially doing it for yourself. So you don't have to feel bad about not doing anything for others. People who do stuff for others do it for themselves. So you are not wrong if you don't exercise a lot of kindness. Justification again. This thought has hence been seen to be very mainstream and common.
Point is even when you get into the finer thoughts, thoughts that are not easily, commonly expressed, you are still the same as someone somewhere in some time whom you will never see. Country is not fundamental. Humanity is. Animals are different. However, I believe there is a layer of thoughts/ thought trains that would overlap even with animals as these are fundamental to survival and all of life has a common point of evolution. In other words, any animal's spectrum of thoughts should ideally be traceable to a human as well, assuming that animals are just dump eat and live organisms without capacity for intellectual thinking. Specifically , motherhood , survival , family and related thought mechanisms should coincide.
He spoke about how he feels that unfortunate people who do not have enough to provide for themselves should be helped and about how he is not actually helping them himself because by doing that he would make them dependent on him and that making someone else dependent on oneself even in the slightest sense is not a fair thing to do to the other human being. Also, by just providing the poor man free food, he would make the poor man lazy.
These thoughts can be interpreted as genuine or as escapism. Danny feels sorry for the unfortunate people but does not really want to give out his own money to help them out and feels guilty about it and hence cooked up for himself the theory that he just spoke about in the last paragraph. I would not be surprised if he means it genuinely as I agree to everything he says.
The reason Danny made a place in this blog is that he echoed the exact thread of thoughts that I have running within myself. I believe I paved this neural pathway of thoughts in the early years after I got my job. I am unsure if I myself am sincere / I am just trying to justify non-action.
The striking thing was that a man is here on the other side of the continent from when I had run through this exact same thought stream. It is truly amazing that we pave the same roads. It is a statement about universal brotherhood(same-ness). We are all essentially the same.
This is the second time I have been surprised with someone expressing my inner thoughts which I have never spoken about to anyone. The first instance was with Mithun, a colleague who spoke about how even when you do things for others, you are essentially doing it for yourself. So you don't have to feel bad about not doing anything for others. People who do stuff for others do it for themselves. So you are not wrong if you don't exercise a lot of kindness. Justification again. This thought has hence been seen to be very mainstream and common.
Point is even when you get into the finer thoughts, thoughts that are not easily, commonly expressed, you are still the same as someone somewhere in some time whom you will never see. Country is not fundamental. Humanity is. Animals are different. However, I believe there is a layer of thoughts/ thought trains that would overlap even with animals as these are fundamental to survival and all of life has a common point of evolution. In other words, any animal's spectrum of thoughts should ideally be traceable to a human as well, assuming that animals are just dump eat and live organisms without capacity for intellectual thinking. Specifically , motherhood , survival , family and related thought mechanisms should coincide.
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