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you know what else I'm mad about? I've been sitting here for months fretting about how to build relationships with all these groups when apparently the answer the whole time was literally show up, say what people needed to hear, listen, and engage in a dialogue. they're so used to people ignoring them that someone who listens carefully and responds to what they say really fucking stands out. gdi, so much wasted energy worrying about how I don't know how to do this.
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what is human interaction?
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ok, I'm talking about a text thread. "show up" and "listen" were figurative.
point still stands tho
alienation is a fuck, and if you can actually do those things youre doing better than the vast majority of folks ive ever interacted with
edit: myself included. like, those are unironically relationship goals for me, because its basically impossible to find people to actually engage with
my mission in life is to kill alienation. I hate it with an unbridled passion.
I also don't really know how to respond to the rest. I'm aware I have some skills that others don't but I'm always surprised by what they are.
do it. please and thank you
also, idk what you're talking about. you regularly make me laugh when I open up my notifications. just do that but also share a piece of yourself.
aww thanks :heart-sickle:
you seem to be taking it as such an easy thing to do, but thats not always the case for folks, like, i have to make a conscious effort to share part of who i am when interacting with people because that just isnt something that comes naturally to me.
it's never easy. it's scary and it leaves you vulnerable. but it's also the only way to beat alienation.
it took me a lot of practice. I used to be nothing but walls.
yep yep.
kinda feeling like every wall has a fucking hedgemaze on the other side of it tho.
yea, it took me a lot of introspection to figure out why. every kind of trauma gets in the way and the walls will be there, thorns intact, until you've dealt with it one piece at a time.
me: doing an introspection
yea, it was the same for me for a long time. only thing that changed it was learning which parts of the maze were safe and using the map I was building to piece together an understanding of why the rest wasn't. in the end, it took an acid trip and a literal face to face conversation with myself to break through the worst walls.
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offer real connection to all the people you care about. learn to tell the difference between superficial bonds and real, meaningful ones - try to build the latter with as many people as you can. work to turn your personal network into a real community. and abolish capitalism.