In the recent years I came across a number of people who were adept at exhibiting their callousness and very proudly announcing their mastery over it !!
Callous - emotionally hardened/ callous indifference to suffering. Cold blooded and indurate to public opinion. Showing our having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others.........
I have a feeling that this callousness is in recent times being referred to as 'looking out for self'. What a sick way to defend your own selfishness.
Be it the shameless attitude of skirting out of a relationship or sending a text to break up or sending an email to call off a business partnership. Be it using the ' i am confused' excuse to flirt around with women and then leave them at altars or championing the cause of being fair weather friend ...... All of it - absolutely all of it is Callous behaviour.
Why so callous - I guess life and times have brought us to this point of self centered behaviour. Under the pretext of saving time, saving money or worst of all - saving emotional effort people resort to this kind of behaviour. It's not justified but it is definitely common.
Next time you come across a callous person don't let them treat you like a door mat - Just give it straight to them . You know sometimes even an inch can topple the load - May be your words could be enough to trigger their conscience (* subjected to availability of one)
I for one have decided to tackle it my way. Straight talk helps - or better still when that doesn't help, cut yourself away from that person. You don't deserve the pain, the sadness and the emotional damage that this callous hooligan brings. And if at all you meet one of those self declaring idiots - tell them it's nothing to be proud of. Callous behaviour isn't humane...........infact it takes you far from being HUMAN......
