/lit/ - Literature

>>16608350
>Things that didn't bother me as much before, like animal mistreatment, violence towards people by other people, seeing abuse take place, the pain other people go through... it bothers me now.

The good is growing and awakening in you. This is what Plato calls eros. Eros is not knowledge in the same way that "all blue birds are blue" is knowledge, but desire for a kind of knowledge you don't yet have. It can be either cultivated or smothered. If you cultivate it enough, you may find more answers. Sadly too many people smother the first flickering embers of this feeling inside themselves, letting artificial knee-jerk instincts to be "reasonable" and "rational" kick in and push them away from the feeling you're having rather than towards it.

Keep developing it, let it stay with you and be patient and gentle with it when it happens, rather than assuming it's just some misfiring neuron somewhere and trying to force your way past it, and not only might you notice whole new modalities of consciousness inside yourself, you will eventually become a beacon for other people with the same potential, who will notice this "unreasonable" caritas and gentleness in you even if only at an unconscious level at first.

Sorry, I just want people like you to know that you aren't alone or anomalous.