I’m stuck in a mood, and I’m not sure what kind of a mood it is – I only know it is persistent, and I have an inkling it’s not good.
I’ve been going through some changes recently. Turning back old cycles, reliving phases, getting stuck in old habits I thought I grew out of. A long time ago, I made a facade through hard work and determination, in order to appear hard-working and determined – but it’s falling apart because I was neither hard-working nor determined when I made it. I’m hardly better off now than I was then, but at least now I know which pit I’m about to fall into (or rather, which desert I’m about to traverse, if you catch my bad mood #4).
Introspection is a funny thing. When I was younger, it was my favorite pastime (acknowledging and ignoring the fact I had no friends and therefore nothing else to do), but now (with slightly more friends, but just as few things to do) I try to avoid it at all costs. Not that it’s necessarily bad – introspection can be very helpful, and some people really benefit from it. But I’ve learned that the more I zoom in on it, the more colorful paradoxes I find; and if I pay attention to me too much, I’ll get lost in a fever-dream labyrinth. So I’ve decided to put a pin in it, for now.
Because I’m an egotistical devil, I like to pretend I actually know what I’m talking about (even though I don’t even understand half the things I say). Keeping this in mind, I’d like to share with you a bit from my brain that I found quite profound when I thought it up, but is probably much less impressive now that I type it out.
Stop giving people good advice.
This is hypocritical in itself, because (depending on who you are) this is good advice. But I’m giving it to you regardless, because maybe if everyone takes this into account, we’ll have a little less stressful of a world.
The justification behind the principle is this – there are no communities where information rolls and stops at the and of the circle. Information can spread to every corner of the globe, which is a good thing, but also comes with unintended side effects. Think of life hacks. A corny meme? Yes. A good example? Also yes.
Life hacks are pro tips to getting a leg up on everybody else in the game. They show you how to improve in any way you want – they will make you exceptional, if you can master them. Only they really won’t, because everybody is reading them and mastering them at the same time as you are. Suddenly, everybody is operating on a higher level than they’re used to, but we keep trying to improve at an exponential rate to keep up with the competition. We’re all hitting our peak potential without any exploration into it, and we all fall back down to rock bottom because there comes a point where you’re too tired to progress anymore – it’s become too stressful to keep up with those who are more adept at adapting.
If you stop giving people good advice, people will stop getting good advice. If people stop getting good advice, they find ways to improve and explore their own strengths and limits on their own, and we as an overall society will advance at a more healthy (and consequently productive) rate.
I don’t remember where this post was going.
I’m working on a few stories right now, but I keep getting scenarios that don’t belong to any of them stuck in my head. You could probably apply that to life, in some sort of ‘the moral of the story is…’ kind of way. But I don’t want to apply it to life, because morals of stories have been smothering me since the beginning, and I want to find a way to escape them.
But I can’t escape them, because I’ve made my own moral of the story by making all my stories the same.
The moral of this story is: Hypocricy is fine and good, so long as no one is doing it but you.
Sarcasm.
I want sushi and animal crackers. And I want to listen to good music that won’t get old.
I’m going to bed. Goodnight.
The Great Escape Room 