An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”
He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
You keep saying self compassion. I have never heard self pity referenced like that before. Not passing any judgement, just new to me. LOL - it's okay friend, metaphors are supposed to evoke thought and discussion - and here we the participants and audience may find value from this interaction in our irl world in the future. The goal is to not get worked up reasserting your point as you'll likely "feed" the vapors parts of the metaphorical wolf.
Yes I do keep saying compassion because it's another word for pity, which illustrates a point that we are playing with semantics. Self pity = self compassion and it's not a bad thing if managed with emotional maturity. It's not evil and it's not good, it's just human.
I agree that I shouldn't need to have made the same argument 50 fucking times.
Ugh. I'm guessing this will be the next rebuttal.
LMAO s'all good friend. Full admission on my part and likely due to the last 100 years of western civ; pity doesn't resonate as positively with me as the word compassion. Again, semantics. Maybe instead of using the word "Evil", we should use the word "Sin" for this metaphor. ie to Self Pity can be a SIN; where as the act itself is not necessarily evil though. That said, I'm not sure the Cherokees had "Sin", so "Evil" in this context may already represent such.