I like digging into People, both for the Heal and Harm for the Passion and Experience life hides, and my primary motivation behind it is a fascination with the Human race and a willingness to interact with it to further that. While Healing is the preference I'm not going to act like Schadenfreude isn't a thing.
I see Life as an Exchange, one where you either self-isolate and go nuts or mingle with too many people at a time and go equally nuts. Finding a Balance between the two can let People be a reality check and fascination without emotionally burning out. A lot of people think you have to be accommodating in order to perform this exchange, or that you need to be forceful in order to make people more like yourself, but to me it's moreso the potential for Change from Open Communication that seems more Real, rather than more Ideal.
I think Knowledge should be shared, and in that sharing we see said Knowledge fluorish and grow. An Idea is hard to kill and easy to breed, and I like seeing life like a data stream with us as schools of fish in it. Knowledge can fundamentally change a person, especially if accompanied by experience, and that is super interesting to me.
Some degree of Surrender of the Self is essential for becoming newer forms of ourselves, and even more Surrender is needed to allow yourself to take other people's spirits into ourselves while potentially opening them up to our own. Acquisition requires Exchanges of information not just with books, but with people who would use that Knowledge or Adjacent Knowledge differently than you would. Even different one-day people I met on my travels taught me a lot and vice versa through a sort of improvised therapy session.
The Comparison is everything when it comes to Human Variation, and I find that very interesting. Animals are fun like that too, but People are waaaaaaay more sensitive and receptive to shapeshifting over mere ideas in their heads, one of the purest expressions of "Mind Over Matter" on Planet Earth.
We can actually produce Cortisol releases from just thinking stressful stuff, while the Animal Kingdom tends to need Fight or Flight instincts to trigger the same. The Human Mind can take ideas and turn them into physical expressions, which is super neat like Art or something to me. Videogames, Writing, Digital Painting, and other forms of Artistic Expression and Behaviors from People let me measure the differences between people's skill, approaches and strategies, and see physical results returned as part of their Soul Imprint upon Reality.
People are the largest Library of Knowledge we have, like folders with books of their own experiences inside. I have dedicated my life to reading those human-books to see what happens to me and them as a result, and witness how this can go between others as a vicarious witness. I like using people to build a spectrum of comparison so that I may use those experiences with similar enough people, an expression of Existentialism arguably.
A desire to Heal and Harm is a desire for Change and Control, which has me wonder how much that it stems from Control Freak tendencies as a foundation. Ideally the healthiest answer would be to let life be, but sometimes it's hard to watch people be Hurt or Stupid and before I know it I am invested and digging for further details to build a Case Study or something.
My ideas strike me as similar to how Satan would likely value Humanity at this stage of it's development, simply watching and talking while offering them innovations to see where things go. It's basically a Human Artist, the Cultivator of Humanity or a Cook of Experience. While God would say we should all fit one template, Satanic values say we can be anything we want and can contribute towards that experience with interaction.
Pretty much to me life's a bunch of Final Fantasy Blue Mages, or like how learning to fight worked in the game Absolver, acquiring things around them to add to their Portfolio of Power. There is much to learn from others, while by ourselves becomes a bit of a dead end alone.
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