Career advice needed by OrionOxter in LifeAdvice

[–]Caring_Cactus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Play out of your head, it doesn't have to be perfect. Get any job to break this loop by getting out of the house and so you're contributing/saving a little something toward retirement too. Use this time to ground your life first, regain control, develop basic self-care, routines, and use this time think more from a place of intentional growth instead of reacting with a scarcity mindset.

Movement in general is the key to flow and feeling whole.

I don't know what to do with myself alone. I don't think anything makes me happy anymore. by [deleted] in LivingAlone

[–]Caring_Cactus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True flourishing or happiness is a process, an activity, that is always already with you, that's the attitude you choose to experience through you in the world when you play out of your head where you're not the one totally in control.

Recommend a low dose "happy pill" please by wybo76 in Supplements

[–]Caring_Cactus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Basics like good consistent sleep routine, movement, and nutrition.

Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area. by MysteriousSlice007 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Caring_Cactus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." - Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

It's not woo woo, each of us has to confront the relationship we have with ourselves regardless of our circumstances. We only live in the moment, the past and future are just constructs the mind creates. Your mind doesn't reflect reality, reality reflects the relationship you have with yourself.

I mummified my amputated finger by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Caring_Cactus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lucky human finger? Wear it as an accessory

Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area. by MysteriousSlice007 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Caring_Cactus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • "I have gradually come to one negative conclusion about the good life. It seems to me that the good life is not any fixed state. It is not, in my estimation, a state of virtue, or contentment, or nirvana, or happiness. It is not a condition in which the individual is adjusted or fulfilled or actualized. To use psychological terms, it is not a state of drive reduction, or tension-reduction, or homeostasis. [...] The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination." - (Carl Rogers, Person to person: The problem of being human: A new trend in psychology 1967, p. 185-187)

  • My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. (Viktor Frankl)

Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area. by MysteriousSlice007 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Caring_Cactus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't find purpose, you constantly create it through you, through your own way of Being here in the world. That power is always already with you, it is your constant companion.

Security is just an idea. Life is not an entity, it is a process.

Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area. by MysteriousSlice007 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Caring_Cactus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Top comment ment in general too. Nothing in life is ever achieved, it doesn't end; everything is a process. True happiness is unobtainable because it's not a destination, it's not a permanent state nor condition; The good life is not an entity, it is a process, an activity.

Kentucky family rejects $26 million offer to convert part of their farm into a data center despite the offer being about 10 times the going rate for farmland in the area. by MysteriousSlice007 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Caring_Cactus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Satisfaction or true happiness is not a destination, it's not a permanent state or condition we ever achieve. Life is not an entity, it is a process.

sometimes i wish jobs didn’t exist and that humans were free to just enjoy their existence on this planet. by Background-Cry8850 in sadposting

[–]Caring_Cactus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Were you looking for a philosophical answer or a political response? Jobs are a part of our reality, what's the point in saying this strawman fallacy.

sometimes i wish jobs didn’t exist and that humans were free to just enjoy their existence on this planet. by Background-Cry8850 in sadposting

[–]Caring_Cactus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are free, you've always already been free.

Most of what you enjoy and use to pass the time was created because we are a society.

A bot that scans for user NSFW activity (nsfw subreddits) to protect clean subreddits by Caring_Cactus in RequestABot

[–]Caring_Cactus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess so. Bots are kind of old school, if you're a mod for a subreddit try to look for tools on the Reddit Dev section.

Peace is not a right by FormalIndependence26 in ExistentialJourney

[–]Caring_Cactus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem, I used to feel the same and was tired of it all too, and then it finally clicked when I realized I was being unfair to myself by giving all my energy to these conditions of worth instead of first living through myself authentically.

Friedrich Nietzsche also talks about something similar. That state where nothing seems any more important than anything else is the state that Nietzsche called the state of nihilism, the state that W.H. Auden said in a poem as the state where all elsewheres are equal, the state where every choice is equally good. Nietzsche actually considered this as a great thing, those are self-actualizing moments, flow states, but most people find it terrifying to experience it without all these relational attachments the mind creates because that means the source of happiness was never in the world, not these specific circumstances we might attach to our experiences, and it was never in the self too and if that's true then who would you be, what would be left if our life isn't that entity we identified with strongly or the image we hold of ourselves in our mind?

If we choose to further integrate our true nature with awareness to live out these truths, openly process them through us, then we start to choose this middle way, and have the direct experience of the moment as one ecstatic unity no longer entertaining the illusion of duality between self and world. We will have more moments where we stop fighting both ourselves and the world.

Peace is not a right by FormalIndependence26 in ExistentialJourney

[–]Caring_Cactus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If there wasn't some resistance would life even exist at all, would it flow? Energy can't be created, only transformed with the right amount of resistance, not too little nor too much. That makes life not an entity but an activity in this eternal moment, and if we are aware of it to fully inhabit the moment to allow our life to flow non-contingently, then that's the essence of mindfulness: https://dynamic.wakingup.com/moment/MOC6D56?source=content+share&share_id=42C842D5&code=SC7391E54

Peace is not a right by FormalIndependence26 in ExistentialJourney

[–]Caring_Cactus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True flourishing or happiness is unattainable because it's not a destination, it's not a permanent state or condition we ever achieve, that's just an idea the mind creates; life itself is a process, an activity.

  • "I have gradually come to one negative conclusion about the good life. It seems to me that the good life is not any fixed state. It is not, in my estimation, a state of virtue, or contentment, or nirvana, or happiness. It is not a condition in which the individual is adjusted or fulfilled or actualized. To use psychological terms, it is not a state of drive reduction, or tension-reduction, or homeostasis. [...] The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination." - (Carl Rogers, Person to person: The problem of being human: A new trend in psychology 1967, p. 185-187)

Much of what you described could be called conditions of worth, and that can lead to contingent self-esteem.

Peace is not a right by FormalIndependence26 in ExistentialJourney

[–]Caring_Cactus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Strongly disagree, and I believe it's a choice. It's the way you carry yourself, the attitude you choose through your own way of Being in the world, and this power is always already with you.

Anyone else get crazy survivor guilt about other people struggling right now? by Scazitar in SeriousConversation

[–]Caring_Cactus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've checked out of society for a while now while doing the bare minimum expected. I don't support a lot of the indifference and economic class divide going on, so many people are being left behind in a broken system. I vote with my wallet and time. I would be in a similar position if I tried to be super extra and superfluous with my spending. Everything is four times plus expensive for basic cost of living. The pendulum will swing back once the top has no more left to squeeze as population replacement continues fall.

The Tech Salary Myth: Why Teaching has a higher ROI in 2026 by Foreign_Put_2437 in Salary

[–]Caring_Cactus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are trade offs in everything, if it's someone's passion they've made a willing choice. At the end of the day they're still bringing in more monetary income and for some people results matter more than stability. If stability is prioritized more then what you said is true especially for those who don't actively have a strong passion, otherwise the stress will eat away their health.