I don’t know exactly how to describe it, but I feel like the universe or something within os trying to tell me something and I’m so close to getting it. I’m going to start meditating for therapeutic reasons, but I was curious if there are ways I could better listen to whatever it is that I feel.

I know openness is important, but I don’t really understand what it means to open up like that.

  • Pluto [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Well, spirituality isn’t religion so I think I may know what you mean.

    Me? I feel that one should not be alienated from their labor, should not be alienated from work (hence, why I’m not “anti-work” per se), as Marx elucidated in The German Ideology. I feel that one should have a craft that they love doing and should either strive to do that thing or, if they currently can, do it.

    Hell, I want to jump-start my career. I love the idea of careers. And I feel that everyone should have one.

    We grow up wanting to be astronauts or the fucking President and why not? We all want a role or a craft that we’re proud of. And I feel that that’s how we ultimately connect with everything else and the wider community. We meet people and bond with them over these things.

    If John can be a smith during the medieval ages and become John the Smith then that’s a great thing that happened.

    But , of course, the problem with capitalism is that our labor and its product are appropriated by the capitalist class and, therefore, it’s not our own and has not much meaning to us.

    No wonder Reddit has a large anti-work subreddit!

    But honestly, if you can find happiness in your craft, in creating good art or writing a good novel, then you’ve made it, and honestly, I feel that everyone should strive for that.

    Dunno if I’m saying everything I want to say or saying it in a way that others can understand, but to me, my projects, for example, and some of my work, and some of my activity, what I do, helps me a lot. @Magician@hexbear.net