Twenty-two seven
When you feel, or maybe are, powerless, it can be hard to sympathise with people who are struggling with the outcomes of their own choices. I think that's probably truer if those choices are more proximate but aren't your own just the same, just more distant?
I think that the obvious conclusion to draw from that is that you should have more sympathy for those people but on the other hand, sometimes because the more proximate outcomes are much easier to see and expect, you feel they deserve it less.
Is that right? If you say, I chose to love her and I couldn't know that it would be a mistake or at least that it would turn out badly, are you a more sympathetic figure than someone who is feeling overcommitted but made those commitments last week and didn't have to?
posted by Dr Zen @ 7:01 pm
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