Posted by floatingbridge on December 11, 2011, at 13:30:51
In reply to Re: empathy » floatingbridge, posted by sleepygirl2 on December 11, 2011, at 12:57:42
You know, I think that's the sticking point, isn't it?
I have a hunch we have more volition than we think.
I did intend to use the royal we.
But we forget. O.K. I forget.
I do, and I am in my pj's.
I bitch too much. I forget how much volition I really have, even if it is the ability to open my mouth and say, by way of dissension, "I do not understand," a fabulously effective line I picked up from Dinah. Or the other day, when someone was going on about how stupid the OWS movement was, and she was involved in my son's educational therapy group, I actually heard her out and played a little game called 'let's pretend everyone's deserves equal respect no matter how wacko ordistasteful their opinions are'. I actually felt like a better person and less like a snarlling, rabid, flesh-eating humanoid. And she wasn't so bad once she was listened to, either.
I digress.
It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we make of what has been done to us.
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