posting your earnest feelings (not opinions!) is the best way to work this machine
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this became clear to me about 4 months ago, when earnest-posting led me to discover the rationalist-adjacent nourishing emotional embodiment twitter scene
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for some reason i haven’t been earnest-posting very much lately, and this is my earnest attempt to figure out why:
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first, i think i subconsciously started to pump the brakes when i started quarantining i had recently made a couple of meaningful breakthroughs during vipassana course, but it felt untactful to put “evergreen” feelings stuff on the tl (which at the time was 99% covid posts)https://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1237403372866531328 …
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chad donkey from shrek 2 @choosy_momReplying to @QiaochuYuani just meditated for a long time, which precipitated lots of good vibes and embodied truths. was really excited to write and share about some of it this week, but now it feels a bit inappropriate to talk about anything other than the virus. like we’ve gone to war or something1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
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probably more importantly though, i started to notice that my new insight porn and self-therapy habits weren’t fundamentally changing my behaviors otoh it hasn’t been very long since i’ve encountered this memespace, and i do think it’s likely to change me in the long runhttps://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1239940293794787330 …
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chad donkey from shrek 2 @choosy_mombasically i would tell people, in increasingly open and articulate ways: “this is how i’m fucked up, and i’m working on it” but really i wasn’t working on it—it just felt good to perform a vulnerable character, take on a self-aware identity https://twitter.com/choosy_mom/status/1218978348069638146 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
in any case, i’ve begun to worry that it’s counterproductive to endlessly consume and develop more fine-tuned models for things like “human interaction” or “how to be successful” i.e. clinically psychoanalyzing social situations often makes you worse at social situations
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i think this fear is why i’ve been posting less, and mostly just dumb jokes jokes are fun and they get me my dopamine fix, but i miss posting about feelings
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also on second thought, it’d be pretty dishonest and conceited for me to think that i’m done sorting all of these feelings out (it’s likely that this ^ is self-indulgent post hoc rationalization) mostly, i just miss earnestly interacting with y’all
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so i’m publicly setting an intention to poast and reply more feels much love to everyone who gives their wisdom and warmth to this corner of twitter


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