A range of things - omg that's just like I saw in my imaginings, to ffs I had that idea and they got to put it out there first cos I was f**king doing some work I don't want and was needing to wait, to competitive, to thinking 'oh maybe I'm not that amazingly, uniquely talented after all', to 'oooh maybe I've found a kindred'. It can also depend on who. Some I'm chuffed (a Yorkshire phrase for stoked etc) that I've had similar idea to this amazing person, to literally fuming that some certain people having put it out there and that I have similar ideas to such and such a person 😂🙈
There’s certainly a lot going on there! If the meaning we ascribe to things changes how we feel about them, I wonder what would happen if we questioned that meaning 🤔
Absolutely. I have also been thinking a fair bit of late that perhaps things don't mean anything at all. Humans ascribe such importance to their projects, careers, doings, creations, achievements etc., and maybe nothing really means anything much really. Not in a depressive way, but rather some sort of happy existential nihilism ;-)
We do learn lessons through these things though, don’t we? I don’t take it quite as far as meaning nothing — whatever it is serves a purpose, the career that puts food on the table for example. But just because something serves a purpose doesn’t mean we have to identify ourselves with it or give it more meaning than it really has. Perhaps not “everything is meaningless,” but something closer to “it can mean anything” and not feeling attached to either.
A range of things - omg that's just like I saw in my imaginings, to ffs I had that idea and they got to put it out there first cos I was f**king doing some work I don't want and was needing to wait, to competitive, to thinking 'oh maybe I'm not that amazingly, uniquely talented after all', to 'oooh maybe I've found a kindred'. It can also depend on who. Some I'm chuffed (a Yorkshire phrase for stoked etc) that I've had similar idea to this amazing person, to literally fuming that some certain people having put it out there and that I have similar ideas to such and such a person 😂🙈
There’s certainly a lot going on there! If the meaning we ascribe to things changes how we feel about them, I wonder what would happen if we questioned that meaning 🤔
Absolutely. I have also been thinking a fair bit of late that perhaps things don't mean anything at all. Humans ascribe such importance to their projects, careers, doings, creations, achievements etc., and maybe nothing really means anything much really. Not in a depressive way, but rather some sort of happy existential nihilism ;-)
We do learn lessons through these things though, don’t we? I don’t take it quite as far as meaning nothing — whatever it is serves a purpose, the career that puts food on the table for example. But just because something serves a purpose doesn’t mean we have to identify ourselves with it or give it more meaning than it really has. Perhaps not “everything is meaningless,” but something closer to “it can mean anything” and not feeling attached to either.
Yeh, that sounds like a nice middle ground ☺️