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How you choose to react to situations, and how you choose to act in your life is what defines your identity. Not the results you gained by effort or achievement

• ilc 2y ago
  Contributing to something can be helping at the local church, or other things of value. I don't consider the urge to help others a negative one. But one shouldn't measure. It is doing the thing to do it for whatever your reasons are, that matters. If I choose to build something to help a kid walk, I am contributing to many things. And yet, I may get paid nothing, and not even care.
  • squigz 2y ago
    > I may get paid nothing, and not even care. Even if you did get paid, it doesn't take away from what you're doing.
    • ilc 2y ago
      It does and it doesn't. Without an interchange of value, you can focus on the thing as the thing, instead of as a value exchange.
      • squigz 2y ago
        I don't believe these are mutually exclusive, but I agree that that's a fine line to walk.
• squigz 2y ago
  > I feel sorry for people who measure their self based on some consumerism yard stick, it is pathological. I mean, if you think this sums up every job everyone has, then I feel sorry for you. Many people are doing laudable work that has nothing to do with "consumerism"