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C.A.R.E.

What is care…? Concerns Are Retractable Emotions

By K. Wisendanger Published about a year ago Updated about a year ago 1 min read
C.A.R.E.
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Do people really care?

Or do people only care when similarities exist, and opposition is not there?

Is care unconditional?

Do people even have the same level of love, respect, and regard for one another when they are angry at the person, or when they view the person as despicable?

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No one cares.

Care is expendable.

When people become angry, the love they once had for you will no longer be applicable .

And the current situation will outweigh the good you have done because in the moment, the good you have done will not be memorable.

It is typical for people to rescind their concern for you and recant their emotions whenever your ideas, beliefs, opinions, and perspectives are not identical.

Which brings me to ask, did you matter…or were you always dispensable?

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Why do you care?

Do you care about them or their well-being?

Or, is opportunity, money, and material gains all that you are seeing?

Morality is vulnerable, and desire is invincible.

The durability of one’s willpower varies from individual to individual.

When money and property is involved, temptation becomes irresistible -

causing people to lose their values and principles.

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No one truly cares.

Care is conditional.

Care is fictional.

People may forget what you say, but how it makes them feel is unforgettable.

Ironically, when a person is no longer here in the realm of the physical, suddenly everything about them and their character becomes impeccable.

They pretend to care about you, but they only want to capitalize off policies, pensions, and material possessions.

They are not focused on you and the legacy you left behind, instead they are only focused on accumulating commas, zeros, and decimals.

When you were alive and not in the realm of the metaphysical, people barely kept in touch with you and acknowledged your existence.

This proves an essential point, and that point is…

Care is provisional.

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About the Creator

K. Wisendanger

A literary architect who builds worlds with words.

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  • The Dani Writerabout a year ago

    Your writing here seemed a catharsis of many things. It is beneficial for us to have such discharge, to expel all the life experience "YUCK" we may have been subjected to. On the other side of that is infinite potential. And people...the people we've been waiting for that truly and unconditionally care.

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