Thinking about it… yes, I suppose it did change my perspective.
It made me feel a lot more empathy for the “lone woman in a dark parking lot” scenario.
It made me realise I’m a meat computer running on chemicals and I’m not as in control of my emotions as I previously liked to think.
I realised that strong feelings can occur without an apparent matching cause. Feeling good without a success, feeling bad without hurt, etc… Emotions exist in and of themselves and can be directly triggered.
Etc… probably too much to write here, and things that are probably obvious to most readers but wasn’t obvious to me until that incident.
PS: It reminds me of instinct: we humans don’t have many that can override our conscious minds, but we do have some. The feeling of drowning for example can trigger completely involuntary actions. Unless you’ve experienced something like this, you just don’t know what it’s like to have biology overrule your thoughts.
Thinking about it… yes, I suppose it did change my perspective.
It made me feel a lot more empathy for the “lone woman in a dark parking lot” scenario.
It made me realise I’m a meat computer running on chemicals and I’m not as in control of my emotions as I previously liked to think.
I realised that strong feelings can occur without an apparent matching cause. Feeling good without a success, feeling bad without hurt, etc… Emotions exist in and of themselves and can be directly triggered.
Etc… probably too much to write here, and things that are probably obvious to most readers but wasn’t obvious to me until that incident.
PS: It reminds me of instinct: we humans don’t have many that can override our conscious minds, but we do have some. The feeling of drowning for example can trigger completely involuntary actions. Unless you’ve experienced something like this, you just don’t know what it’s like to have biology overrule your thoughts.