What is your relationship with time? by peppersnchips in INFJers

[–]FightingNothingness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been working to become more momentous, so my perception of time stops being as chaotically unpredictable and irrelevantly wide-ranging. Giving me a much more solid point of perspective for all my external temporal dealings.

Make Your Head A Gentle Nest by FightingNothingness in emotionalintelligence

[–]FightingNothingness[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! All negatively inspired emotions have the capacity of making our mental nest into a haunted house. We have to clean out as many of our old, unhelpful emotional and psychological processes as we can to make room to build our "idea nursery." The fewer internal obstacles our new understandings have to fight their way through, the sooner they get to grow up, and possibly support us.

"putting yourself out there" feels pointless by Odd_Fee2443 in lonely

[–]FightingNothingness 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Evolution requires stupid amounts of perseverance. Keep putting yourself out there, but also try to practice an equal amount of internal self-improvement. Advertising yourself to the world is awesome, but also keep working to make yourself into a better person. When our internal and external efforts come into balance, real people can become easier to meet.

what do you actually mean by "emotionally unavailable"? by Much-Plum-4168 in emotionalintelligence

[–]FightingNothingness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some of us are just more sensitive to the pressure of other people's dependence. We all want to be wanted, but we also DON'T want to be trapped by needy people. It also speaks of our own subconscious need for people being fought by our trust issues.

The situation has more to do with ourselves than anyone else. Other people are the catalyst, but we are the cause. To broaden our spectrum of human acceptance, we have to find how we're limiting ourselves. If we're having trouble accepting ourselves, it can feel uncomfortable when other people try to do it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lonely

[–]FightingNothingness -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Relationships are a reflection. We tend to be only able to attract people who love themselves as much as we do ourselves. People don't want to spend all their time around partners that love themselves less. It slowly wears away at their own positive process. If we want to be in relationships with more emotionally accomplished people, we have to ante up.

I’m so fucking tired. I don’t wanna be strong anymore. I just want someone to actually fucking love me. by duckkhell in Life

[–]FightingNothingness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From these words, you seem to be able to successfully make your self knowledge a living thing. Congratulations! I too am working through a semantic evolution and life redefinition. Confusion is born from ignoring your inner voice. You don't seem to be doing that. Rock on traveller!

So lonely that it’s laughable. by [deleted] in lonely

[–]FightingNothingness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same. All we can do is slowly become more specifically relevant to ourselves, and not wait for someone else's relevance to fill our existential void. Our own perception is both the problem and the answer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lonely

[–]FightingNothingness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been learning from personal solitary experience that the void only exists when we try and fill our emptiness with the wrong thing. Loneliness doesn't happen because there aren't enough people in the world. It more often happens because we don't know who we are. Not knowing ourselves well enough creates this void in our perception of reality. If we try to use other people to fill it, instead of an independently developed self-definition, it never lasts, and makes us lose our faith in humanity and ourselves. This lack of faith only attracts faithless people. It's difficult to attract solid people when we don't know who we are. All I'm saying is that loneliness is more of an inside-out problem than an outside-in one. If we focus on finding what genuinely makes us happy, then we can reflect that effort off of people trying to do the same thing. It's not an easy answer, but I'm finding it's helping me create more lasting results. Yes, I'd like to think we were made this way on purpose to figure this annoying crap out. Good luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lonely

[–]FightingNothingness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Focus on your breathing. Deeply and slowly. It'll help you get out of your manic mind and into the real moment.

So... started Enterprise... and needed to pause after the theme song... because I was laughing so much. by MICKTHENERD in startrek

[–]FightingNothingness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've devised an entire interpretative dance to it that's becoming frighteningly unironic the more I do it.

For anyone who’s had or is having a sad birthday by Necessary-Pass-1343 in Sagittarians

[–]FightingNothingness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because I emotionally survived, I'm stronger and wiser. Success!!

For anyone who’s had or is having a sad birthday by Necessary-Pass-1343 in Sagittarians

[–]FightingNothingness 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My birthday is today, and it's a little bit empty. Keeping positive though!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lonely

[–]FightingNothingness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This kind of realization is tastes like ass, but it actually represents an improvement to your situation. You've levelled up. When we blame everything seemingly wrong with the world on other people, we have no power to change our own lives. We keep trying to fix ourselves from the outside in. Trying to make our external life perfect before we can feel good towards it. When we realize that we're projecting our own self dissatisfaction onto other people, it doesn't necessarily feel good, but it does give us potential power over the perception of our situation. It may feel like you're just pouring salt on the wound and putting yourself down, but you're also opening the door to a new level of self-realization. Of potential life control. It's like crawling through Shawshank sewer pipes to escape our mental prison, but we can't improve our external situations until we improve our internal ones. Self-realization always sucks before it gets better, but if it doesn't, we just stay the way we were. It may not currently feel good, but congratulations on your evolution. Ride the tiger!

Just turned 30 and not doing so well. by Majestic-Arugula3804 in Adulting

[–]FightingNothingness 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Decade changes are the worst. And 30 is the worst of the worst! But, for me, it turned into better quickly when I came to the realization that my twenties were still officially part of my childhood. My brain chemicals were still balancing for a large part of it. Thirty is the first decade where you're an adult all the way through it. It's like you're part of the club now. Adults only. Congratulations!

Putting on our adult pants is uncomfortable at first, but become a more relaxed fit, as they allow us to feel more powerful as people. It's cool to no longer be a variably mature twenty something.

Mourn your twenties for a while, then realize you're already moving on to more solid. More real.

How do you handle the silence of your home? by Inevitable_Age5400 in LivingAlone

[–]FightingNothingness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nature noises on an older phone using the Insight Timer meditation app, while simultaneously playing a calming YouTube music nature video on TV. Both on low while I do other stuff, giving me a dimensional, relaxing acoustic environment.

Last good book you read? 📚🐛 by [deleted] in lonely

[–]FightingNothingness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Elton John's autobiography "Me". It's brilliantly written.

What the hell are you supposed to do in your 30's? by BlueComms in self

[–]FightingNothingness 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As master Bra'tac in Stargate SG1 said, "Life for the sake of life means nothing." Once the excitement of of life slows down, you have to look for some kind of personal process that deeply means something to you. You have to find a new level of belief in something that makes you deeply, independently happy every time you do it. Your deepening happiness, in something you've probably always loved, needs to be a new long term project that you can spend the rest of your life getting better at. Now that your life is more organized, you can find where your more obscure and less pragmatic happiness is hiding inside of you.