alt Hacker NewsThere's a lot of "I"s in your paragraph there.
I think it's worth it to be ok with everyone being a little bit in the same boat of wanting to self-help, then becoming enamored with buddhist ideas, then grappling with everyday being just another human. In whatever order.
I'm sure you mean well but just kinda irked me that you immediately put in the effort to "nope can't relate"
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> I'm sure you mean well but just kinda irked me that you immediately put in the effort to "nope can't relate"
In part that's because I see the message of the post way too often and I haven't seen my message around that much. It's just to counterbalance it. I don't think the message of the post is wrong per se, but to me it comes across as such a strong statement of "this is how it is" that I want to say equally strong back (as one vote of the general public) "nope, can't relate, here is briefly why"
If someone makes generic statements that apply to all, it is 100% ok to answer with I cant relate.
Frankly, even superior. Too many people frame own feelings and individual experiences and general universal or even rational truths.
I think that hearing other points of view is important.
I see time and time again that posts insinuate that there's no other point of view, and I think that highlighting one perspective is enough to show that this (as in the article) isn't some mathematically perfect piece of advice.