heal psychological damage. AI-Generated.
Why do animals like tigers, dogs, and cats have the ability to be aware of their body injuries and prioritize healing those injuries, while we seem to lose that ability? I will share a topic about psychological wounds that need healing. There is a very familiar and cute story about a tiger, where when a tiger is hunting and gets injured, its instinct will know that it is hurt. The tiger will then automatically abandon all food-seeking activities to return to a safer den and lick the wound for many days, even weeks, until the wound heals before it resumes hunting and looking for food. Animals have that instinct, so the question is, what about us? In our lives, we have many emotional wounds that make us feel pain. These wounds can be even more painful than the broken bones of a tiger. They are wounds in our souls - loneliness, despair, guilt - causing us pain and breakdown. However, we either do not realize or realize but do not prioritize taking time and space to truly heal the wound. So, the first question is why animals like tigers, dogs, and cats have the ability to perceive their wounds and prioritize healing, while we lose that ability. From my perception and experience, there are two fundamental reasons. Firstly, when the tiger in the story is physically injured, it is easy to recognize and treat. If we have similar physical wounds like bleeding, cuts, sprains, or broken bones, we will seek immediate support. So, if we have the ability to recognize physical wounds, we can definitely prioritize healing them. But emotional and psychological wounds within our souls are harder to see. We are in pain, but we do not see or understand our pain, and those around us cannot see our pain either, so we do not realize and prioritize healing. The second reason, which is much more important, is the modern society we live in today distracts us. When we feel sad, we now have too many instant healing medications to soothe the emotional and mental wounds immediately. We have many funny articles on Facebook to read, jokes, and funny videos on YouTube, TikTok to instantly soothe the wounds at that moment. We have become addicted to that instant entertainment instead of delving deep inside to face, understand, and heal the source of those wounds. The habit of spending too much time with technological products has also made us neglect those around us, failing to notice the loneliness, suffering, and pain of our fathers, mothers, partners, or friends, which comes from today's modern lifestyle. Therefore, we can see that young people today are no longer hungry for physical needs but rather hunger for emotional and mental fulfillment.