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Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void.
Viktor E. Frankl
There are a lot of people telling us to take this time during the coronavirus to improve ourselves. Learn a language. Learn guitar or photography. Become an astronaut. Doesn’t it feel like there’s a lot of pressure on us to BE more than we are?
Here’s a different take: be deliberate about what you take in and what makes sense for you. There’s so much information in the palms of our hands–like drinking from a firehose. It’s up to us to decide what our values are and what we will benefit from. Right?
I loved this and laughed at your salad analogy. The one thing that I know for sure, is my day is a whole lot better when I get some exercise. Getting out of the house every day to go to work, has been great for me. I have been subbing in a kindergarten self-contained class and loving it – like you, I love experiencing new things. Life feels like a constant shift of directions and I wonder if it will just always be this way? Maybe the scale is never balanced and just tilts back and forth forever. You are making me think.
This also made me reflect on a conversation I had with my mother this week about going to a therapist. She said that she knows it’s a good one when they don’t tell her what to do, but let her talk and ask her questions until she can come up with her own conclusions.