Thanks for taking the time to respond! Yeah I meant what you said here, like there are definitely people who can achieve peace in the most intense situations but there are also people who can bench lift hundreds of pounds while others can't at all so it really does seem like more of an effective stress management technique than a one-size-fits-all solution to every problem (which I think treating it as such is what leads to stuff like "spiritual bypassing").

This is my own weird thing but I also feel like it's kind of a shame to treat all these struggles over these disparate things as ultimately meaningless. Like, yeah, we all die eventually, and we're tiny on a galactic scale or whatever, but that's kind of a scope error when you consider that our current state of being is our main way of experiencing the world. There isn't anything more important than us ("us" being loosely used to refer to every living being we know of...) because we don't know of anything more important than us that exists, and I think it takes recognizing that and having a pretty radical view of the validity of other's (non-ghoulish...) goals to reach my perspective. Which is that it just feels sad to take all of these things people care about and take a spiritual crap on them because they seem like a less efficient way to find fulfillment. Some of the people I admire most find fulfillment in the most simultaneously trivial and overly difficult things while being fully aware of how trivial they are the whole time.

So it's kind of like, people are leaving themselves on fire, but who am I to judge? There are people who find literal sexual pleasure in actual physical pain. I think that's valid, and I have a hard time viewing other people's desires as any less valid.

Plus I just like art and stuff idk lol