The world makes it easy for you to believe in your own specialness, but incredibly hard for you to truly discover your own ordinariness. A side effect of specialization under modernity is that everybody gets fractionally distilled from birth to "special" by age 21 or so.
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The big secret they don't let you in on easily is that the more you connect to your ordinary side, the more weird-mediocre superpowers you unleash. Haven't yet fully formulated this thought yet, so don't bug me for examples rn.
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You are probably "ordinary" like me when it comes to going splat if you jump off a roof. Yet you're rarely aware of the ordinariness there. You are rarely reminded that you are NOT an Olympic athlete or a circus performer who could parkour around safely where you'd go splat
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99% of who you are is made up of such ordinary ways of being. If you choose to attend in some ways to those aspects of being too, your relationship with yourself starts to change. It's like growing roots into the soil of your own being, previously rejected as "not me"
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You don't have to invest in those aspects or sort yourself into "strengths" and "weaknesses" and shape yourself (eg: focus on strengths, mitigate weaknesses or the reverse to become "well-rounded"). But being aware of ordinary bits is an interesting thing to do.
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It's like a superstring theory view of yourself. Your "special" self is like the unwrapped 3 dimensions. The rest is like those 7 or 8 extra curled up dimensions. Degeneracies in the possibility metaverse of you :D
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I'm not exactly sure why I'm down this bunnytrail (it's related to, but not the same as, the mediocrity bunnytrail). Ordinariness is more basic. Seeking it reveals a completist attitude to the territory of being. Something like trying to perversely visit every lighthouse in US
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Ordinariness is the Big Data view of yourself. It’s all in scope. Another example: we view relationships through the lens of “special” aspects. But an ordinary view of a relationship is simply “all the time spent entangled together”. Not just the highlights reel of specialness
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