And “seeing” work in service of people with nothing much to present is the most difficult kind of caring work. Relentlessly demanding, exhausting, and fundamentally unrewarding/thankless, even if you’re being paid. Reverse dementoring. Soul transfusion instead of soul sucking.
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Not proud to admit this, but I’m finding out my soul surplus available for seeing-caring work is extremely limited. I’m like a cellphone battery at 10% and red even at my best. In awe of people who seem to have 10x battery to go around soul-charging others.
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10% surplus for random other humans that is. More like 70-80% for selfish use.
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I've moved on from the narrative of being seen. Idk, from time to time, I think there's something more going on --https://twitter.com/startuployalist/status/1215125696726499328?s=20 …
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Sadly it’s not a “narrative”. It’s a basic need and unconscious drive like eating that most people never reconstruct into anything else.
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Fwiw, one of my favorite passages from a novel was an elaborate description of how the main character engaged in a ritual opposite of a somatic-meditation, to piece by piece, vanish and become unseen even to himself, until he was reduced to an element
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Mystic fiction is nice. The average human is not a hero.
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One of the key steps on the road toward ego death / stream entry
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Being "seen" can occur through multiple methods. Apps, or social groups, wherein people find their communities, broaden that away from just physically seen, to being "heard".
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the sense of being sensed higher value to be 'understood' of coursea
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