Vanity and Fake People

[DmnStr8]

Responding to the OP.
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”[/i]

A Shaman?
A Mystic?

Don't we all want to catch someone from going off the cliff? It's in our nature. That reaction. That sudden reflex to reach out and stop them from going over the edge. Complete empathy in that moment. Are we all shamans and mystics in that regard?

Maybe when we see vanity and other shortcomings of other we have a reaction to want to save them from it, because we recognize the cliff is there. We recognize it because it is part of ourselves.

People are mirrors.

 

[a1pha]

OK, I think that is enough of this thread as well.

Now how about a "Happiness and Awesome People" counterthread?

Or maybe some research? Just a thought.