In my “Iron Hearts” article, I was writing about how today’s society encourages people to stop using their hearts.
“With all this cold technology surrounding us, our conscience isn’t cultivated anymore. […] When something breaks down, we don’t bother too much, we know that it can be fixed; and if it can’t be fixed it ends up being thrown away and nobody cares about that.”
The keyword here is “care”. Now I’m not asking you to break into tears if something breaks down. That would be stupid for me to ask. What I am trying to say here is that there are less and less opportunities for people to use their hearts.
We don’t care if the TV breaks down, we don’t care if a plant dies, we don’t care if the neighbours lose their cat… we only care about a very few things. We’re being selfish.
I’ve stumbled upon a very relevant example that proves my point.
Gretchen Rubin from happiness-project.com wrote in one of her articles: “It reminds me of two goals: first, don’t “save” my favorite things, but use them up; and second, when something is broken, get rid of it.”
So, instead of “care”, what we find here is “use up” and “get rid of it”. How can you teach someone to be happy using these kind of messages? What kind of happiness would that be?
This is a very clear example of what I was saying… Read the “Iron Hearts” article for more.
I don’t want to be moralist so I won’t get into any more details here.
I believe that my “iron heart” point has been proven. We’re being thought not to care, and what’s worst is that a happiness blog does this too (maybe without intention).
Be careful, keep your heart!
