If there's one thing most people need from most of their relationships in life, in one word, it is symmetry.
For you to care for someone as much as they care for you. If you under-achieve, you either tend to resent or feel guilty. If you feel they do less, you feel cheated, victimized, resentful or worse. Whether it is your wife, your boyfriend, your employer, your best friend, your room mate, your child - the underlying notion of symmetry is surprisingly universal, whether we can feel and articulate it in that way or not.
I wonder how can we work on reducing the gaps in healthy ways...
For you to care for someone as much as they care for you. If you under-achieve, you either tend to resent or feel guilty. If you feel they do less, you feel cheated, victimized, resentful or worse. Whether it is your wife, your boyfriend, your employer, your best friend, your room mate, your child - the underlying notion of symmetry is surprisingly universal, whether we can feel and articulate it in that way or not.
I wonder how can we work on reducing the gaps in healthy ways...
2 comments:
And this is as improbable as the event that a randomly sampled real number is rational..:)
Hi! How are you doing?
Lol. Thanks for the mathematical insight. Too easy to forget with philosophy.
And good. :)
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