VIVA LA RESISTANCE
[Psychology]
July 19, 2023
I used to think that people can be healed by a kind attitude, love, tenderness. It seemed to me that if you give a cold person a lot of warmth, his heart will surely melt. “It's the law of nature - the warmer the air, the sooner the ice disappears,” I reasoned. And then I realized that some people are better left alone, because their permafrost is so eternal that they are like huge glaciers that even no warming of the climate will take. They are not bad, no. Maybe even very good ones. They are just fine without you. Why waste your warmth on someone who does not need it at all?