living in pain sent my carometer from below average to full. Seeing squalor definitely did something. I think it probably depends how you see it—did you talk to people as equals or see them as different types of people you couldn’t relate to / didn’t fit a certain criteria? Being surrounded by suffering from a young age doesn’t seem to make people care—its being shocked by suffering after not having had much of it around that is occasionally very powerful—Like the story about the Buddha growing up in the palace then seeing sickness, death and age for the first time?
living in pain sent my carometer from below average to full. Seeing squalor definitely did something. I think it probably depends how you see it—did you talk to people as equals or see them as different types of people you couldn’t relate to / didn’t fit a certain criteria? Being surrounded by suffering from a young age doesn’t seem to make people care—its being shocked by suffering after not having had much of it around that is occasionally very powerful—Like the story about the Buddha growing up in the palace then seeing sickness, death and age for the first time?