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Others carry them around on a sign for everyone to see and these are the individuals who will develop an injustice sphere toward you if you don’t agree with their spheres. If you take a moment and think about it, you will identify acquaintances that fit each of these methods of “sphere maintenance.”
Letting our injustice spheres “fade” or “burst” are skills that some of the squirrels developed. They are able to choose to not get upset and thus are able to control and eliminate these injustice spheres. The majority of the Squirrels in the story can not imagine ever being able to have these skills. In addition, may of them don’t think that you should fade or bust injustice spheres. “It is like they are afraid that if they don’t hold on to them, that someone will take advantage of them or make them look foolish.”
Cosmos points out that besides the life difficulties and unhappiness to this injustice collecting causes, it makes you vulnerable to the “snakes.” The snakes in the story use “complementary injustice sphere” to lure squirrels. By agreeing with the squirrel’s injustice sphere, the snake is able to get the squirrel to do something against their be tter judgment and best self-interest. The real world analogy to this “snake” is obvious. Too many of us are so needy for validation of our irrational thinking that we will associate with undesirables just because they agree with us.
Injustice collecting may be peculiarly human but it causes a lot of emotional distress, over reactions and victimization. Cosmos cannot understand why anyone would want to have injustice spheres, “But then again, I am just a crow.” He sees all of problems this injustice collecting can cause and concludes the story with, “And I am really glad that I am a crow” (and thus free of injustice collecting).
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