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External validation and being useful to others matter. A world of everyone playing violin in a closet for nobody is a dystopia.
by alabastervlog 2y ago
External validation and being useful to others matter. A world of everyone playing violin in a closet for nobody is a dystopia.
- posterman 2y agoonly inasmuch as a world where everyone playing violin in the streets is a dystopia, too...
- nonrandomstring 2y agoA gentleman is someone who knows how to play the bagpipes but chooses not to. May also apply to violins.
- beauzero 2y agoMy niece would disagree. She loves playing violin just for the playing of it.
- alabastervlog 2y agoIt's not that nobody enjoys doing anything just for its own sake—it's the destruction of ways to provide for others, socially. Humans really, really like doing that. The two things may as well be completely different activities, scratching totally different itches. No amount of solo activity will make us feel whole in the same way feeling that our abilities and passions are helpful to and desired by—not just humored by—others we care about will.
- LiquidSky 2y agoThis view that you can't just do an activity for your own joy, you have to do it for the approval of other, is the actual dystopia. I wonder how old you are because this seems very much like the attitude of someone who was born in the age of social media.
- alabastervlog 2y agoThat would be sad. Did you mean to respond to some post that was about that?
- LiquidSky 2y agoYes, I responded to yours.
- alabastervlog 2y agoWeird, since that notion appears nowhere in my post.
- LiquidSky 2y agoGiven that I'm not the only reply you received reading it that way, perhaps you should consider that you did not communicate what you think you did.
- alabastervlog 2y agoPlease point to any part of my post that reads best as "you can't just do an activity for your own joy". You can just admit you made a mistake. It's fine.
- mnky9800n 2y agoYou cannot share happiness with others if you don’t create it for yourself first as you will have no happiness to give away.