[ SECRET POST #6665 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6665 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's that simple at all. Enjoyment is not good in and of itself.

[(Anonymous)]

What a miserable way to live life.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's far more miserable to make the sum total of life be about pleasuring oneself.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm starting to think you don't understand what words mean.

[(Anonymous)]

One point that you're missing is that life is already unpredictable and full of shocks and sad or fucked-up things happening. It's fine to want to experience happy ending FICTION, though.

[(Anonymous)]

What are you doing here? Why aren't you out at the food bank, cleaning trash off the street, planting trees, protesting the war in ukraine, protesting the genocide in palestine, protesting the fascism in the us, protesting the genocide of the uyghurs, sending all your excess money (of which you must have a lot since you only eat beans and rice because eating pleasing food is miserable) to victims of the recent earthquake in India?? You're not helping your community.... you're here. Is it because.... you.... enjoy something? How dare you indulge yourself when you should be living for others!

[philstar22]

Self care is important. People need escape too. Life can be very stressful. Watching fun stuff and having fun helps people function in the world and handle life.

[(Anonymous)]

No, self care, as it's understood, is not important. It appeals to narcissistic impulses and presents the abdication of any sort of social and communal responsibility, and the rejection of any sort of higher meaning, as not only acceptable but ideal.

We are most fulfilled when we live for something other than ourselves. We are most depressed when we are self-obsessed, constantly looking inward and seeking personal pleasure. I do not believe that "fun" as we currently define it is helping people function and handle life; I think it helps them cope, which is a very different thing. Actually functioning and handling life would involve investing in it, finding the kind of transcendent purpose that makes people retreat, because the call to think outside of themselves is uncomfortable. "Self care" as it's meant and used is an invitation to shut off and pretend that all the awful things happening around oneself are not really happening.

[philstar22]

No one can live every single second of their life for others. We shouldn't be putting ourselves first all the time. But it helps no one to burn out and not be able to function at all. Yes, having a purpose, caring for others is important. But that doesn't mean you have to spend every minute of every day doing that.

[(Anonymous)]

People don't get burned out by serving others. They get burned out by serving someone else's narcissism, which we are currently expected to do in order to "make it." Serving one's community, or one's loved ones, is not on the same order.

[philstar22]

I'm sorry, you are wrong. I see it all the time in my field. Everyone needs downtime. Everyone needs moments of pause. You can't spend every waking moment taking care of others. You have to take care of yourself too.

[(Anonymous)]

... lol

[(Anonymous)]

You sound like you know ALL about narcissism considering how self absorbed and self righteous you are. You may wanna get tested.

[(Anonymous)]

You have the most unhinged takes I’ve read in a long time and I spend hours on Reddit every day LOL

[(Anonymous)]

You are wrong. I did get burned out serving others as a volunteer, after years and years of helping. So. Now I’m in self-care mode, because I can’t do it anymore. 25 years burned me to a crisp. Is that selfish? By your standards, yes. By mine? No, because if I can heal enough, I can go back to helping. If I push and go too soon, I’ll burn out again.

I’ve got to say this: you sound young. You see everything in black and white, whereas I see the shades of grey that inhabit the space between those two endpoints. I hope you mature and are more tolerant soon.