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Matt Bateman@mbateman• over 2 years ago

> your 20s aren’t serious, relax > teenagers should be wild and irresponsible > childhood is supposed to be fun and carefree Your 20s are serious, adolescence is serious, childhood is serious, and your life is serious.

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Matt Bateman@mbateman• over 2 years ago

Replying to @mbateman

> Childhood is serious, really? Yes! Confusions about the proper seriousness of 20-year-olds are downstream of confusions about the proper seriousness of childhood. https://t.co/5xh5dtAddb

Matt Bateman@mbateman• over 3 years ago

gm may you today achieve the focused spiritual elevation of a toddler peeling an orange https://t.co/I7o0AjIWVu

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Matt Bateman@mbateman• over 2 years ago

Replying to @mbateman

Relaxation, free-spiritedness, amusement, silliness, absurdity, and fun are at all ages absolutely important, irreplaceably meaningful, and strictly dependent on and essential component parts of taking yourself seriously.

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Matt Bateman@mbateman• over 2 years ago

Replying to @mbateman

feel free to follow me for takes both serious and absurd (usually properly subordinated)

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J0eCool@CountJ0ecool• over 2 years ago

Replying to @mbateman

@mbateman If you aren't taking your unseriousness seriously, yngmi

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Roland | positive loop@positive_loop• over 2 years ago

Replying to @mbateman

@mbateman I feel like there is a conceptual tripping hazard here with different interpretations of the word of "serious"

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Matt Bateman@mbateman• over 2 years ago

Replying to @positive_loop

@positive_loop almost certainly yes

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Roland | positive loop@positive_loop• over 2 years ago

Replying to @mbateman

@mbateman How those stages unfold has gravity and consequences. It is the input for your adult life and therefore hugely important But I feel that most people interpret this and "taking it seriously" as an imperative to tense up and lose all playfulness

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Roland | positive loop@positive_loop• over 2 years ago

Replying to @positive_loop

@mbateman When the skillful way to deal with this kind of gravity is actually to engage in serious play To retain playfulness around danger without falling into carelessness

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Matt Bateman@mbateman• over 2 years ago

Replying to @positive_loop

@positive_loop I don't think it's "most people" but I think it is a hazard I tried to hedge that risk two tweets down from OP above

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Roland | positive loop@positive_loop• over 2 years ago

Replying to @mbateman

@mbateman Yeah you're right most is unhelpful. But I'm not very concerned about the hazard More interested in how I feel that that misunderstanding is at the heart of why those pieces of advice are given

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