Indifference, tolerated, kills life, with its lack of caring, and its non-connection to love

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When you tolerate someone, you allow them to operate in their own false way around you, and this, in a way, is not caring both for yourself, and for the other person, too. You are emptily indifferent to what is happening around you. A step up from toleration is caring what happens to others, and to yourself, too, but care with awareness, not blindness, which might lead to you caring for someone in a suffocating way, that essentially prevents them from being their real selves, but bending themselves to your way for them instead. Loving someone is deeper, than caring, and much deeper, than toleration. You allow someone to be themselves, and to grow as, and from, that self, rather than being pruned from growing by overcaring, and indifference, to their existence. You show them connective compassion for their being present, and connected, to you, at this time, and so you help them to find their way through life being themselves, their real self, rather than them remaining lost in, and to, themselves, their false, or ego self, alone. "Feel a healthy indifference to it." said the English writer, Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874 to 1936) But, can indifference ever be healthy? No, it cannot. We need to move past indifference to caring, and then to loving. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Are we indifferent to what we see about us, or can we care for, and even connectively love, what we see?