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letra de treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping - akira the don

i read this piece of work by yung a long while back
it was a meditation on the injunction to treat your neighbor as you would like to be treated
and what yung pointed out which i really liked
was that an injunction to be nice to other people
it was an invitation to reciprocity
it was something like this
is like you should figure out how you would like to be treated like you were taking care of yourself
not how you would like people to respond to you
it’s more important than that
it’s like imagine you had a child that you really cared for
and someone said “well people will treat this child exactly like you want them to”
“but you have to figure out what that is.”
and so, then you’d have to sit down for like a month
and you think okay well how do you want your child to be treated
you don’t want everyone just to be nice to them
you know you want people to challenge them and you want people to discipline him
and you want people to tell them when he’s wrong
it’s like you don’t just want everyone to be nice that’s pathetic
it’s pathetic
there’s no challenge in that
there’s no challenge in that
human beings are self-conscious
and we know about our limitations and we know about our weaknesses
and so, we can have contempt for human beings in general
because you know we’re just flawed and breakable and all of that
but we know ourselves better than we know everyone else
and so, you have a very acute sense of how you’re not up to scratch
and so that leads naturally to a sort of self-contentious att-tude
people are more likely to give prescription medication to their pets than to take them themselves
imagine someone that you treat well that you love
and try to treat yourself that way
you go to detach from yourself
you got to think okay well i’m a person among other people
and i deserve at least as much respect as a person among other people
i should be trying to help myself across time
and instead of being self-contemptuous and self-destructive
i need to take care of myself as if i’m potentially valuable
and to lay out my life that way
it’s hard for people they don’t take care of themselves as well as they should
take care of your room
take care of your things
like have some respect for yourself as a miraculous being because that is actually what you are
there is a lot of potential within you
you’re necessary more than you think to the unfolding of things
that’s the thing about being an individual
it’s the thing that western civilization has always recognized
that as an individual you have a light that you have to bring into the world
and that if you don’t bring it into the world the world is a dimmer place
and that’s a bad thing because when the world is a dim place it can get very-very-very dark

- akira the don

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