Justice and friends – derailing from the topic but somewhat interesting

There is another big difference between the Old Souls* type and the Young Soul* type that particularly the Old Souls* must become aware of because there’s no real convincing of the Young Soul* that what I’m about to say about the Old Souls* is true. The Young Soul* believe that everyone has a self-interest first, and whatever they do to help another person MUST BE in their own self-interest. In other words, if you care for your family, it must be in your self-interest to do so: you’ll ensure a safe environment for yourself, divide tasks and live more productively etc.

Now, the Old Souls* take this a bit further. They believe that whatever benefits an individual is kinda good for everybody. Happier people create safer, more stable communities, and therefore it pays to keep everyone as happy as possible, regardless of personal connections to any given person.

the Young Soul* can’t really think at that level yet, as they see all good deeds as an attempt to groom them personally into a position of a friend, leader, or a collaborator; this is why the Young Soul* is a sucker for such things as customer gifts or freebies, even the kind of “free gifts” that you get for spending money. It’s all in the name, isn’t it? To the Young Soul*, everything is a direct transaction – you scratch my back and I scratch yours. To a Old Souls*, the equation is a little more complicated: We are all human, we are all living beings, if you are happier, you’ll make someone else happier, and then, they make someone happier, and eventually it all goes around and good things are paid forward and nobody REALLY needs to do a direct interaction between two specific people.

the Young Soul*, however, feel a certain panic about it. If they give something to someone, they need a reward straight away. They also need a reward from their own children, as they cannot see themselves as a caregiver to even their own children without expecting A CERTAIN, if not immediate, return for investment. An the Old Souls* parent creates a platform for their child to thrive from, they feel like a gardener; they may plant an apple tree, they plant it on a good ground, tend to their roots, but know that the person eating the bounty of the apples is more than likely someone very different to themselves. They still do it, because it’s good for humanity and good for the “apple tree”, rather than themselves personally.

Justice vs. Favor

the Young Soul* are ALWAYS expecting to be mishandled or drawing the short stick UNLESS they make a concerted effort into holding their ground or on gaining ground. They struggle through life because they absolutely do not believe anyone would give them anything without benefiting for it – as they wouldn’t either, predominately.

A strong the Young Soul* would, for example, expect a judge to rule against them lest he or she be “greased”, and if the same judge rules in favor of the Young Soul*, they might feel that the judge is “asking for” a bribe to compensate them. A Young Soul* is TERRIFIED of favors/kindness from “powerful people” because they feel any favor always comes with a price; so they may feel a favor is a direct attack on them, and a way to obligate them to a return favor later on.

This includes people who simply make sure everyone gets their dues, such as judges, social workers, community managers and leaders of all kinds.

However, a Old Souls* may have LEARNED to look a gift horse into the mouth, because when the Young Soul* DO give out charity or favors, they tend to come with strings attached.

Terrifying kindness – a terrifying lack of kindness

the Young Soul* are essentially afraid of everything. They are terrified of kind people, but they attack people who are not ESPECIALLY kind easily. The Young Soul* are the social justice warrior types, who accuse and guilt normal level headed people into all kinds of acts of kindness just to prove they are not selfish and horrible people. At the same time, the Young Soul* doesn’t use the same level of scrutiny on their own actions and tend to be a little surprised when they are asked if THEY are doing what they expect others to be doing. The reaction tends to be “Why should I/we? We’re not important… You are?”

An the Old Souls* would be wise to note that the Young Soul* men and women do not consider themselves accountable, but they consider people who are in some way “leading” communities accountable by the last dot on the paper. This includes the Young Soul* women who expect the Old Souls* men to reach superhuman standard of personal virtue while expecting nothing even remotely comparable from the Young Soul* women. The Old Souls* must start defending their own position more strongly – the Old Souls* have the bad habit of reconsidering their own position a BIT TOO EAGERLY and under too little pressure. That is the Old Souls* flaw – so unwilling to cause trouble, that they cause trouble.

the Old Souls* should not be so easily guilted onto backfoot. The Old Souls* are always afraid of being seen as hypocrites, and therefore they can be easily shot back by claims of suggesting that. The Old Souls* must stop being so insecure about the level to which they manage to live according to their own values.

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