Overall pretty good. But there may be some issues.
I’m not lying when I say that this whole communist thing with the party and activism is taking over my life. It’s on my mind 24/7, I keep doing stuff for it daily and normal things just don’t bother me that much.
Is that a problem? Not per se, the cause is great. But I need to do normal stuff in order to keep functioning in society. But I take 0 shit from any manager, boss, cop, teacher, often giving them a polite go fuck yourself speech. If some normal thing happens to be at the same time as a party thing or protest I will cancel it.
I was supposed to go to a football match with my dad yesterday but I went to protest neonazi’s instead. To me it’s more important, and my dad had someone else to go with as well, but it’s still a social event cancelled.
There might be a point in which I need to find balance and focus on other stuff as well. But right now, all my emotional attention goes to my girlfriend and communism really. It makes me feel good to do the things I do. I really feel like we have momentum now and that we need to push forward. But it’s really busy.
I notice that the war in Ukraine and the crisis in Europe is adding to all of this. I’m having trouble with everyone just functioning normally when I keep having a feeling that shit will go down soon.
Everyone’s passive attitude towards all of this is something that keeps getting weirder to me. There’s so many people complaining or stressed out about current situations and they do… nothing. It’s not that I blame them, but sometimes I want to grab them, shake them and yell at them that we can do something. Together. We together can change this shit.
Limited time: not enough life to divide between the cause, girlfriend, family and friends.
Conflicting spheres: political thoughts firing off while you’re socialising with apolitical friends/family.
Encroaching reckoning: change is coming, and it’ll be loud when it comes.
Maybe the latter will ‘help’ resolve the preceding points? Or maybe bringing politics into the rest of your life now could be a good idea rather than letting the inevitable approaching shitstorm do it.
I find that keeping my social life completely separate from my politics helps. My friends are a way to escape everything and I try not to preoccupy my mind with stuff like this if I’m just going to the beach or something because if I don’t then I will go mental. If the movement can’t handle me separating myself in order to focus on stuff that actually makes me enjoy life then it was never that strong to begin with, Marxism is just a way for me to solve the world’s problems, it doesn’t dictate how I enjoy the things I already can
Interesting view, thanks. I do enjoy helping in a political movement. It’s as if years of anger and a feeling of not belonging in the world have finally found a place to escape into. The hate I feel for our current system is immense. But instead of making me miserable it’s giving me the strength to move on.
It’s not that I don’t do any fun personal stuff anymore but some things just became less of a priority.
Overall pretty good. But there may be some issues.
I’m not lying when I say that this whole communist thing with the party and activism is taking over my life. It’s on my mind 24/7, I keep doing stuff for it daily and normal things just don’t bother me that much.
Is that a problem? Not per se, the cause is great. But I need to do normal stuff in order to keep functioning in society. But I take 0 shit from any manager, boss, cop, teacher, often giving them a polite go fuck yourself speech. If some normal thing happens to be at the same time as a party thing or protest I will cancel it.
I was supposed to go to a football match with my dad yesterday but I went to protest neonazi’s instead. To me it’s more important, and my dad had someone else to go with as well, but it’s still a social event cancelled.
There might be a point in which I need to find balance and focus on other stuff as well. But right now, all my emotional attention goes to my girlfriend and communism really. It makes me feel good to do the things I do. I really feel like we have momentum now and that we need to push forward. But it’s really busy.
I notice that the war in Ukraine and the crisis in Europe is adding to all of this. I’m having trouble with everyone just functioning normally when I keep having a feeling that shit will go down soon.
Everyone’s passive attitude towards all of this is something that keeps getting weirder to me. There’s so many people complaining or stressed out about current situations and they do… nothing. It’s not that I blame them, but sometimes I want to grab them, shake them and yell at them that we can do something. Together. We together can change this shit.
Limited time: not enough life to divide between the cause, girlfriend, family and friends.
Conflicting spheres: political thoughts firing off while you’re socialising with apolitical friends/family.
Encroaching reckoning: change is coming, and it’ll be loud when it comes.
Maybe the latter will ‘help’ resolve the preceding points? Or maybe bringing politics into the rest of your life now could be a good idea rather than letting the inevitable approaching shitstorm do it.
I find that keeping my social life completely separate from my politics helps. My friends are a way to escape everything and I try not to preoccupy my mind with stuff like this if I’m just going to the beach or something because if I don’t then I will go mental. If the movement can’t handle me separating myself in order to focus on stuff that actually makes me enjoy life then it was never that strong to begin with, Marxism is just a way for me to solve the world’s problems, it doesn’t dictate how I enjoy the things I already can
Interesting view, thanks. I do enjoy helping in a political movement. It’s as if years of anger and a feeling of not belonging in the world have finally found a place to escape into. The hate I feel for our current system is immense. But instead of making me miserable it’s giving me the strength to move on.
It’s not that I don’t do any fun personal stuff anymore but some things just became less of a priority.