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the question is fundamentally broken, misframed, designed (intentionally or otherwise) to perpetuate error and failure and despair. "what to do with my life" is not a question to be answered. it's a bug https://t.co/8JFDnSnsFX
your life is not a thing to do something with, it's not a resource to be allocated efficiently (this itself is known to induce despair), your life is the domain in which you exist it's not a mathematical equation to be solved with any sort of finality, but a tension to be danced
it has been known to induce despair for HUNDREDS OF YEARS. JS Mill wrote in his autobiography that he was depressed and that he realized, from a voice within him, that achieving all his goals would not make him happy https://t.co/fyjyYoNIUh
went looking for the original quote from Mill > And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" At this my heart sank within me he goes on to describe how it was the work of artists and poets that lifted his spirit https://t.co/id5rkewyEn https://t.co/hvQHzMRNWA
"figure out what to do with your life" is a psyop, a spectre, a spook. yes, it's POSSIBLE that one can find a way to walk this very narrow tightrope in a way that brings joy and meaning and purpose, but I've talked to hundreds of people about this and it's pretty fucking bleak
you do have to figure out how to pay the bills, yes, and you pay the bills so that you can LIVE your life I'm being very adamant and insistent here because I have seen people lose years, decades of their joy to this little linguistic slip up it's worth being adamant about
I recommend being able to at least experience & embody this energy for a little while, just to feel in your bones that you do not exist to be a cog in the machine. you might BE a cog in the machine, but that is not your PURPOSE. dont let them take yr soul https://t.co/CrqC1vnniz
and even here it's fucking tricksy shit ok – if you're not careful it's very easy to end up being subjected to your own internal authoritarian-tyrant who demands that you live a life of Meaning and Purpose. NO. FUCK EM. FUCK ME. FUCK EVERYTHING
and yeah you can't Hakuna Matata forever, ultimately the pendulum has to swing back and you have to come to a synthesis, but the thing is that synthesis must come from within you. from your *heart*. listen to the inscrutable exhortations of your soul https://t.co/i5cjayL5L9
you can't figure your way out of a feeling problem https://t.co/wDKS62AerO
again I say to you the problem is misframed. the princess is in another castle. if you misdiagnose a feeling problem as a thinking problem you will be trapped there indefinitely https://t.co/XewTZzXps6
anyway yeah if you wanna get into 300 more pages of this I wrote a whole book about it, you can catch free snippets of it over at @introspectVV and you can see a thread of quotes that have stuck with people here: https://t.co/SM3XoZXo0a
@blisstweeting exactly that https://t.co/qNnvuMC73K