love this. i noticed over the last year, i am exponentially happier when volunteering at the local juvenile detention center (phone taken away, no opportunity to focus on anything other than the kids in front of me) than i ever was watching reels about how “focusing on yourself” is the key to happiness, success, contentment, etc. Most often they are trying to sell some kind of isolating, complicated routine. I just didn’t have the words to recognize it. I like when people discuss the sometimes intellectualizing everything endlessly is actually a problem.
when you see the title and you just know you’re gonna love it
Thank you for writing this, this is a great reminder on the posture to live
Currently emerging from my early-20s meditating, journaling, psychedelics, intellectualizing, therapizing daze and coming to this exact conclusion
love this. i noticed over the last year, i am exponentially happier when volunteering at the local juvenile detention center (phone taken away, no opportunity to focus on anything other than the kids in front of me) than i ever was watching reels about how “focusing on yourself” is the key to happiness, success, contentment, etc. Most often they are trying to sell some kind of isolating, complicated routine. I just didn’t have the words to recognize it. I like when people discuss the sometimes intellectualizing everything endlessly is actually a problem.