Does indifference and abandonment often do more harm than direct aversion?
Indifference is a neutral feeling. We tend to define an indifferent person as one who “neither feels nor suffers. ” It is a feeling that prevents the person who behaves like this from entering. However, when we receive a blow of indifference from someone, their claws produce very painful wounds.
- To think that someone is indifferent is to attribute a series of adjectives that have almost nothing to do with the ideal of a virtuous person.
- Indifference is associated with insensitivity.
- Detachment and coldness.
- Characteristics that do not correspond much to the social condition in which we live as human beings.
- Which allows us to relate to others.
Being indifferent means that “nothing interests us”, that we feel nothing for a situation or a person, that “everything is the same”. While we are sure, we must also ask ourselves whether it is possible to isolate our emotions in this way. When we show indifference to something or someone, what we’re really doing is moving away from that person or that circumstance.
Life is full of moments and circumstances in which the choice of indifference is not always the best option, we can worry too much or not enough, but we can never stop feeling, it is a resource that allows us to choose certain stimuli so we can feel them, or just take them off, so absolute indifference is never possible.
Popular wisdom says that “indifference is the hardest answer, even when you don’t expect much. “It is proven that when we direct our indifference to another person, this attitude is one of the most aggressive and painful we can have. our indifference to someone implies that we withdraw all our feelings, that nothing else exists for us.
But indifference is not always negative. It is also a defense mechanism to which we cling so as not to suffer continuing disappointments in the face of the setbacks of life. Keep us out? Or “don’t expect anything from anyone or anything” this is a way to protect us. If we could not resort to neutrality and had to give a negative or positive response to every stimulus we receive, we would end it exhausted.