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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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I've moved on from the narrative of being seen. Idk, from time to time, I think there's something more going on --
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woke: “social” technology is fragmenting the psyche and eroding human relationships bespoke: “social” technology is breaking the monopoly of the single true self, unlocking new universes and higher Kegan stages
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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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