Our society is very different from what it was a century ago. Even if we return fifty years, people will be significantly different from our contemporaries. What is the difference? Why did people lose sincerity, simplicity, sincerity, and instead came such concepts as callousness of a person, indifference, indifference? Many have forgotten about humanity, exchanging it for some kind of calculation in life, for example, financial or selfish. Let's try to figure out what many people understand by the word "calling".
What is callousness?
This concept is studied mainly in psychology. Here it is defined as a personality trait that was formed on the basis of a person's loss of the ability to empathize, sympathize, be emotionally sensitive to the problems and grief of other people or any other living being. What callousness is is known firsthand by those who had to deal with callous people. Unfortunately, there are more and more of these in our society. We can meet the callous attitude of people towards us on the street, in a store, inhospital, at work, and so on. What do experts understand by callousness and what other qualities does it complement?
Main synonyms for callousness
What callousness is can be understood by a set of moral and psychological characteristics that complement it in relation to people. This word can be safely supplemented with such characteristics of a person as indifference, indifference, rudeness. Sometimes selfishness and hatred can be manifested with callousness. Callousness is a lack of love for someone.
Once a wise man was asked a question: "How do you understand the word "calleness"?" To which he replied that callousness is equal to indifference. Other negative qualities express their attitude towards a person, even if it is negative, but indifference does not express anything, it reduces relations to zero, destroying all the good rudiments of relations between people. It is human nature to need recognition and love. Without feeling a need or even uselessness, he morally dies, internally collapses. It is callousness, indifference that can kill love. No negative qualities can be compared with an indifferent attitude. Anger, hatred, disgust can upset, but they do not deny the existence of a person, a person. And callousness and indifference figuratively turn it into an empty place. They leave nothing.
What can callousness and indifference lead to?
These moral and psychological characteristics of a person, in essence, nothing destructive at first glancecarry. A callous person may not do anything wrong, but the results of indifferent behavior are amazing. How many times do we meet statements: “If only they had rushed earlier…”, “If they had helped me right away…”, “If they had immediately provided him with medical assistance…”? Indeed, if you pay attention to a person, his problem a little earlier, you can save him from fatal mistakes, prevent personal disasters, and so on.
B. Yasensky once said a very good phrase on this subject. He clearly notes that enemies can kill in the worst case, friends can betray, but indifferent people are worse than everyone else. They can silently give consent to murders, betrayals. You never know what to expect from them. Callousness and indifference can lead to physical and psychological injuries, loss of the meaning of life, death in extreme cases.
How to get rid of indifference and callousness?
We must be aware of callousness and indifference. This is a blockage of various emotions. The beginning of the development of these qualities may be the period of early childhood. There are many reasons for their development, but how to get rid of them?
- It is important to stop being offended by anyone or anything. You need to train to let go of everything: both bad and good. Resentment entails a lump of unspoken words and emotions.
- You need to express your emotions in a socially acceptable way. This is not a scream, destruction, but a search for constructive ways to solve problem situations.
- It is important to recognize and develop good qualities in yourself. We can't becompletely positive, as well as only negative. Therefore, it is necessary to develop positive qualities, and get rid of negative ones.
By exercising empathy, an emotional attitude towards the environment, the development of positive things around you, you will no longer feel indifference, emptiness and callousness.
