That's a spot on reply. You clarified my own thoughts. Thanks for that! I was right, but you were righter lol.
Stop striving, hold onto a sense of spirituality in a world that's rendered it irrelevant...and, yes, I used to not think this way at all, but my hardships have probably been, if not the best, then the most needed things to ever happen to me. And oh, I know, I know everything...says my 18 year old self. ;P Little did I know...just how little...did I know.
Meh, sometimes putting these things into words is challenging, I bet you meant similar, words are tricky and have great power, we use them pretty frivolously. I feel like my vocab could use some work, reading some older authors I'm like "man we got dumber" hahah. I actually wrote an article a while back.
Haha crazy how things work sometimes huh?
Cool, I just read it...and now I'm mad at you. Let me explain.
So, you took my idea. You took my whole head of ideas and you already done did them. F@#k. Not you, just fork. That puts a fork in my plan, it's done been did; a fork in my road, the path must now change.
Man, I think about that every day, all day, no matter who I talk to. It feels challenging at near best, consoling at times when it works "real gud", and other times just downright foolish to even try. (Whenever I've ever been truly depressed, sad - that's the reason why. That's the root from which all my deepest frustrations have ever grown. Miscommunication, poor communication...failed communication.)
Good to know no horses were harmed considering your likeness. (Or is that a dog? I can't quite tell...that also makes me think of something haha, it does. Maybe I should link that too, just for fun.
See, he looks like you lol.
Crazy how things work all the time. Crazy how things work at all, honestly. We're all signing at each other with our hands thinking we speak the same language and we so very do, at least at heart, but in expression we so very, so often, do not.
But yes, to approach communication with compassion and respect. That is how the f@#k you do it best, and it can be really f@#cking hard. It's easy when you like someone, it's a whole 'nother story when that's not the case.
And, honestly, when thinking to reply to someone's ideas, I almost always just pick an angle to elaborate from, because my mind tends to travel in quite a few directions with things. And, this is relevant, because when replying to you I chose an angle of agreement over the more critical one my mind had taken. Both true, both relevant.
I tend to very carefully and selectively use criticism (words have power), maybe it's just a quirk, maybe I should reconsider that. Maybe I've been hurt enough to understand the need to tread lightly, carefully, with what I convey to others. I tend to see value in finding common ground rather than looking for negatives, differences. Not that differences are necessarily negative...and that just led me to something else. David Foster Wallace, "This is Water". Default Settings. If you're not already familiar with that, it's relevant to this, I think. What's your default approach? Is it helpful, is it good? That's a valuable question to ask over and over again. (That was a good post by you.)
I'll just add it, lol, why not? Here.
One of my favorite things ever.
Lol, whoops! Just write your own with your own take on it, I'm no authority, just the way I see things. I need to check back on this post later for vid content, busied up right now
Oh, that was just my first silly thought. And my videos are silly and redundant. David Foster Wallace was referenced by someone else here recently, in a really great post...that it looks like you took inspiration from in writing this one. I told her the same thing about what she wrote. "You stole my idears" lol. Nobody owns ideas. And I'm anything but disappointed to see that so many people do share my views. It excites me, that's why I can't quit talking lol.
David Foster Wallace knows his shit, maybe I should read one of his books..
I know exactly what you mean, for the longest time I had no one to talk to about this. Probably helped me start listening more, I just buried myself in teachings and books and videos and silence.
These ideas have been around forever, we're just trying to put them in contemporary terms. The more people talking about it, the faster we all get there. I'm actually shocked how many people on steemit talk about spirituality.
Coincidence?...
Nice song btw :)
No, it's no coincidence. It's one of the first things I noticed here and I've been pondering that ever since. So many of us seem to be lacking something essential. I don't mean to invoke too much assumption with that word, "lack", and it's probably not the best word to use. But we're seeking. That's so apparent. And I think it has to do with the political climate and how harsh things have gotten. I think maybe we do hole up and we get to feeling alone, and then in a place like this we suddenly realize we're not alone at all in how we think and feel. We crave and thrive off that interaction. I could say some really sappy sounding words to describe how wonderful and good that can be, but my words would probably diminish the experience I'm trying to describe. I think all humans are creative. I think it's beaten out of us, and so we don't think we are. We don't realize it. But as soon as we engage and start sparking that energy off of one another it just bursts out of us. That's what I think we're really craving. I know it's something that I miss when I have no outlet for it.
I used to think I was so alone haha, at least haven't met many people in my town
I think you're right, but at least we realize it. Plus now we can show people how we lost it, and how to get it back
I get depressed and it affects all areas of my life. I've found singing in the car, writing, yoga, running, and a few others are my go to outlets, I'm sure I'll branch out as I go, don't wanna get bored ;)