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If you know how to be a warm person in cold world, you will be source of inspiration for those who seek warmth in an increasingly alienated world.
This is the happiness blog of author amarvani. We talk about everything happiness here. I think it is important to understand what is warmth, and how can we become a source of warmth and emotional comfort for others. So, let us go.
What does it mean to be a warm person?
Let us try to understand this from a contrarian perspective.
A cold person would not greet you, be indifferent, show no empathy or sympathy towards others. You do not enjoy talking to a cold person because they feel emotionally distant, and/or disinterested in you. You know someone is cold when you try to have a conversation with them. It is possible for people to be selectively warm or selectively cold, but we can sense the kind of emotional response we get from someone, whether it is cold or warm.
Let us try to understand the characteristics of a cold person before we try and understand how to become a warm person or a personality:
1. A cold person is indifferent towards the needs of others
People who are cold in their behavior do not care about others’ needs. They are focused on themselves. For example, a cold person may demand an employee who is not well, to work, irrespective of the employee’s health.
2. A cold person has no sympathy towards others, forget empathy
Like in case of the above example, the cold person would not feel bad for the colleague, which is sympathy. Cold people don’t even understand the emotion of empathy which is putting themselves in other people’s shoes and trying to feel what they feel.
3. A cold person is emotionally detached
Have you come across people who keep saying all the time, “don’t be emotional?” They are emotionally detached from others, and behave only in a transactional way, as if everything is a transaction and not a conversation.
4. People with a cold personality are mostly critical of the world about them
