Sorry everyone, I’m low-key losing my shit at the phrase “force yourself”.
Like, I do see that this is a natural way to describe things, and there’s a real phenomenological cluster of mental motions that lots of people intuitively describe that way.
And yet...
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This description increasingly occurs to me as though it has a confused misconception baked into it.
What does it really mean to “force yourself”?????
Not really sure what’s up with me that I’m on tilt about this.
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Okay I think I’m a little calmer now :-).
IMO if I’m talking to someone and they invoke a phrase like “forcing myself” I think they are often (not always) low-key involving me in their internal conflict.
Which is fine once I remember that is what I sometimes actually think.
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