Mastodawn

I know we all joke about passing around the same mutual aid $20 bill, but in a polycrisis world, it feels like there's also a parcel of moral support and caring that we pass around between people in different kinds of crisis and hardship, too. Everyone gets their turn to give and receive it (in my circles anyway). The reciprocity is much healthier & more comfortable than feeling like a constantly needy friend.

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@LonelinessCorps

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Just Tom... 🐁

@ShaulaEvans You pose an interesting question. I have seen people in the health professions who have been "taught" empathy but who can only go through the motions, - completely missing the point that to empathise is to see things from the other's perspective and to FEEL their emotions (not always because you have experienced their troubles for yourself - just as the doctor doesn't need to have had appendicitis to know what it feels like). Some of it is hard wired, I think... .@LonelinessCorps