“Why do You Care about People?”

Let’s care away! Care as much as you feel like

“Why do you care about people so much? If you made an appointment with someone you don’t like and you really don’t want to see the person, then you should cancel it. Don’t think about it.”

I have a Buddhist Christian friend who has always preached about not being emotionally attached to anyone at all. He always says that human beings need to learn to want nothing and work on what they need instead.

“What do you mean not care about people? Why is everyone part of a family then? Or why is it that everyone longs to be part of one?”

I didn’t like the way he felt.

I respect him very much. He cheers me up when I’m in a bad mood. He has made me laugh on numerous occasions.

But I still can’t support how what he firmly believes.

He says everyone is suffering because they want people too much.

He didn’t have an answer to my question though and said that he’d get back to me with an answer.

I speak to him on a regular basis and he never has come up with an answer as to why it is that humans haven been part of a family unit for centuries and centuries and, surely, have been a part of a group for all of their existence.

I’ve brought up what he’s said because he’s gotten me to think deeply about how my mother used to say, “Just don’t care about anyone and you’ll be fine” (I didn’t know why she used to say that since she never practiced that; always coming home and complaining about what people at work said or how they carried themselves or the stupid looks people always had on their faces). I often meet people now who say, “I don’t care what anyone says.” I think about this ‘not caring about people’ statement because I have a problem with it.

In fact, people, by nature, care about how others behave and what others say to them. People must care actually or else issues regarding human relations of any kind wouldn’t be discussed nor solved. Contrary to what my Buddhist Christian friend says all the time about people needing to learn how not to have anything to do with each other, I believe that the world wouldn’t be more harmonious if every single person left each other alone, since, if that were to be the situation, there wouldn’t be any relationships…