Did you ever had a situation when you buy something you don't really need, or buy something just to please yourself, even though you feel that you shouldn't do it? For example: some unneeded magazine or journal, some snacks, extra beer or two, sweets, pistachios, manga and anim.... errr.. I mean... mangos' and anigozanthos fruits, etc.?
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I usually didn't had any concrete method to restrain myself from doing this, aside from simple awareness that maybe I should keep my money for something more useful or that this would just waste them, but not anymore!
After reading through 'poverty' tagged pictures on Danbooru, of which majority is about our dear miko, I started to treasure every bit of food much more that before. Not that I didn't valued it already, but now it advanced onto whole different level! I can now empathize with Toriko's "Giving thanks to all the ingredients in the world!"!
Therefore, if I go shopping now, I can just start saying to myself something like:
- Remember the Reimu! Reminisce her situation! Think about Reimu!
- Think about Reimu! How can you buy something like that, while this poor girl is starving!?
- Will you really buy this, while Reimu is eating dirt? You bounder! Have some compassion and empathy!
- Etc.
And the problem disappears :V
[Warning] It is very effective auto-suggestion, so use it wisely!
The same with finding a coin, be it either a cheap one, or a one with reasonable value, I just cannot pick it up without remorse. What if the next person going this path, or the next noticing this coin, will be Reimu? What if I don't leave this coin as it is and deprive her of opportunity to eat something? How can I deliberately harm her in such cruel way? If I don't really, but really, really need this coin, how can I so awfully torment Reimu by divesting her of joy from finding this coin, so she can buy something to put into her poor, grumbling tummy? :ohdear: