save things that don’t need saving
When I was kid, I believed inanimate objects had feelings, so I wouldn’t kick stones. One time, I injured myself ‘rescuing’ a flashing traffic horse, after my friends had thrown it into a large puddle.
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I have heard that having feelings for inanimate objects is a sign of intelligence
I felt the same way when I was younger! Like if I were eating a bag of chips and had two in my hand I would feel bad for the one I didn’t eat first, I just didn’t want it to feel left out!
I’ve always been like this =/ I seem to believe that everything has feelings, and am always scared I’ll hurt something, like those stretchy lizard things – I can’t stretch them too much in case it gets too painful.
I once went through a thorn bush to rescue my little brother’s toy dog that got thrown in a river during playtime – Mum couldn’t understand why I was suddenly being so brave!
Meels – I hope you’re right, that’d be quite a consoling thought: “You’re not bonkers, just intelligent!”
What the hell is “a flashing traffic horse”?
Once when I was about 11 I was using the last little bit of shampoo in the bottle. It was hard to squeeze out but the bottle looked like it was trying so hard, and kind of panting, so there was no way I could just throw it away even though I knew I was being ridiculous. I just hid it away in a draw and forgot about it until I moved house three years later. Even then I felt huge remorse throwing away such a trooper after they’d sewrved thier purpose.
when i was really young, i would always pull on trees–pull their branches and hang on them, leaves, whatever, until one day my grandma told me that it hurts the trees and makes them sad. so every time i would do anything to a tree (even accidentally, like hit it with a baseball) i would go back later when no one else was there and apologize to the tree because i thought if i didn’t it would get mad at me and do something to me.