Sometimes, sadness sets in when we see people in important positions who do not take a stand for systems. Such decisions are motivated by different considerations, such as either wanting to be in the good books of their bosses or having personal ambitions to become larger than life or their petty interests, such as earning money, favoring somebody known to them, or retaining control. In either case, systems get compromised. The potentially best products get converted into sub-standard products.
Such people probably feel that the cost of intervention and stand is quite high. When they get fixated on a narrow frame of life, all these problems naturally arise. They identify with a few things and such identification is repeated again and again and therefore that is quite a strong identification. Generally, most people around them are also equally fixated, and we all keep approving each other's fixations. Society, in general, also supports these fixations. That is how these fixations become stronger. Since they spend most of their life in the fixed frame, there are hardly any occasions to look beyond the frame.
Such people become insensitive to the things that lie outside their frame. They are so disconnected that whatever happens in the world is just news to them. Their first reaction is whether this news has any impact on them and their families. News of war, rape, exploitation, and failing systems do not bother them. That is why they remain happy in their limited frame until that frame falls off. Any limited frame that is disconnected from the wideness of life has to fall off sooner or later. It's just a matter of time. If nothing happens, death is waiting at the end of the narrow street with no escape. But the mantra of these people is that let us live happily until death comes.
On the other hand, the "sensitive" people have a larger frame of life that is connected. They feel the pain of people dying in wars, getting raped, being exploited, and passing through psychological disorders. They suffer throughout their lives because they feel the pain of others. They are considered stupid by the people who continue to stick to their limited frame. Yet, these people can not cut off that connection. That's why every news of exploitation pains them. They get concerned about systems and whenever somebody fails to take a stand turning a good product into a sub-standard product, they feel the pain.
Somebody may say that sensitivity is a curse in this brutal world. However, my take is quite different. Sensitivity makes us broad and that broadness helps us get over the fixations to our limited frame of life. When we connect to the people passing through problems, crises, and pain, we connect to the divine. We live many lives in a small life. We enter into a different frame of life leaving aside our own limited frame. We understand and appreciate the pain of people suffering in jails, poverty, and darkness. That helps us understand the relativity of our own frame. It also gives us certain occasions to connect to "frameless ness", the divine, not bound by any frame. When we come back to our own frame after having the experience of such "frameless ness", we understand that a frame is just a frame and life is much larger than any frame. We start connecting to the divine and that gives us the courage and conviction to explore what lies beyond the limited frame of life, we have been fixated to.
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