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She's in an upswing stage of mental energy. Live long enough and find out that these up and down swings are constant throughout anybody's life. When people are
by trabant00 3y ago
She's in an upswing stage of mental energy. Live long enough and find out that these up and down swings are constant throughout anybody's life. When people are up they look for reasons and form semi-religious devotion to a pattern they identify: therapy, running, meditation, lifting weights, drugs, yoga, forming a family, you name it.
Thing is though: this too shall pass. You will go down again even though you keep doing that wonderful thing that you thought changed your life. And maybe you will abandon it, stay a year or two down, then go up again and find another thing.
My point being: the causality is often perceived backwards. You start feeling better and then you start doing a thing (or more) you suddenly have time and energy for. And as you feel better and better you point to that thing as the cause even though it's just an effect.
- mvncleaninst 3y ago> You start feeling better and then you start doing a thing (or more) you suddenly have time and energy for. But then, why even bother calling the feeling "better" in the first place if the cause is really something unknowable? Why bother calling it "better" or "worse" if there isn't anything to be done about it and it's just another phase of mental energy like clouds in the sky? Is a clear day "better" than a stormy one? What does the "better" even mean here?