Open Heartlessness
Concern is over-rated anyway.[via Lance Mannion]
Any sloppy, teary-eyed milquetoast with a soft heart and a softer head can be concerned. The trick is to act on your concern.
And concern---caring---feeling deeply about things, about causes and children starving in Africa and your pain, about friends, family, the victims of natural disasters and lost pets and vanishing rainforests and stockholders and the bottom line and the New York Mets, is all too often merely projection.
We care deeply about all those things because we care deeply about ourselves and we see ourselves, darkly, in the looking glass of the world around us. We double our conceit. We love the mirror and then we love ourselves for loving the mirror.
It's how so many bad people don't know themselves to be bad.
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I disagree somewhat. What I do agree with is that we do what we can. But the reality is that for a lot of things we can do nothing concrete. Sometimes I liken concern or awareness, to prayer. More and more I am seeing that even though it is uncomfortable to be aware, we need to be aware, even when we can do very little or nothing.
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