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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
i actually resonate with something like this.
@Aella_Girl
has said several times that self-love doesn’t make any sense to her and it’s always tickled me in a way i was never able to articulate. but if i had to try...
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@selentelechia
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ok first pass at articulation: in some ways the idea of "self love" feels absurd to me bc some major part of me believes that love is a description of something that exists between me and someone/something that is not-me
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-??? w/ COVID 😷)
@QiaochuYuan
and i think the distinction between “absence of self-hatred” and “self-reparenting” matters because the former feels to me more like a steady state you can settle into long-term and the latter feels to me more “temporary” - it might take years but i think you can “finish”
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Nick
@nickcammarata
to me it just feels v different than either of those things but maybe it's just 2. At high arousal it feels like looking at a cute dog I want to just run up and play with. Low arousal kiiind of like cuddling? Totally might go away at some point, def no claims of permanence
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Nick
@nickcammarata
it was also totally discrete and hasn't diminished (3 months?) Like one moment it wasn't there at all, now it's A Thing. I'm super afraid of making any claims because I don't know what it is other than what it feels like
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