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I’ve been paying attention to this more, when people talk about what they want, their sense of purpose, their desires, etc, It’s weird. People are weird about soul. https://t.co/2ELidIQmj1
The tone of voice and tone of text changes around it, the whole conversational mode shifts. Even this comic, I’ve been seeing it around more lately and it seems to strike a chord, And the whole tone of it reflects this discomfort with desire and purpose https://t.co/FK10vZ41Q8
This goes back to the ladder I talked about in the QT thread, which also seems to have an age/developmental reflection to it, I remember when I was quite young, maybe elementary or middle school, talking about what you *think* could be cringe,
A bit older, talking about my body was cringe. These days, I don’t have a problem saying “Jesus I’m constipated” or “I need some rest, I feel crazy bloated from lunch.” If I’d been frank about my body like that as a teen I would have been *mortified* (as would kids around me)
And then of course feelings become cringe. Some people go to their grave being unable to talk about their emotions without shifting vocal register, altering their word choice—finding ways to distance themselves from it
It can take a lot of work to be able to have a normal, confident conversation about your emotions without an instinctive revulsion, a reflexive need to put some distance between “the usual me” and “the me who is saying this”
And even in people I know who are really able to pull that off, to talk about and express their emotional inner worlds and knots without putting 8 layers of irony and diction and vocal fry between themselves and it,,, Talking about soul still gets the distancing treatment
Scan your contacts list internally. Imagine sitting across from people you know, having a conversation. How would they talk about the events of their day? How would they talk about a breakup, or a particularly good vacation? How would their talk about their Mission in life?
This “exhortation—>weird bugs” pattern tends to crop up for most people when they talk about matters of the soul. We either talk in embellished circumlocutory archaisms, or just like deflate it like its whatever or rise and fall between them, from th’Aonian Mount to weird swamps
Give it a go. Drop it in the replies, as best you can: what does your soul pull you towards, what’s caught up in your sense of capital-M Mission? What do you want for your life, not just today or in your next 5-year plan, but writ large?
How’s it feel to type that? To say it out loud? How would it feel to sit across from a friend and tell them this, as a normal part of your relationship? How would it feel to express it to an acquaintance, or a colleague? What if this was a thing everyone casually knew about you?
@the_wilderless Tear down the veils that separate us from love and grace, free the truth and cooperate with it freeing us all. Create a world where our love for each other can flow more naturally, where union can have less friction and dissolution can leave the parts intact and able to reunite.
@the_wilderless Not quite writ large but what I felt called to share. Wrote this in a text thread with @zencephalon a while back https://t.co/kKjwORXEHF
@the_wilderless maybe at each level of the vulnerability ladder it becomes more painful to find out whether your thing is different from other people's different thoughts, different bodies, different feelings, different purposes
@the_wilderless we weren't meant to do any of this stuff alone i think. purposes and missions were meant to be shared. i feel profoundly isolated in some sense when i reflect on how different mine are from most people's (not everyone's thankfully)