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As much of a proponent I am for shadow work and as much as I’d like to see folks manage their emotions better during this time, I don’t think it’s worth pushing ppl into spirituality or to “do their shadow work” by using Covid’s existence. Let people have their feelings y’all.
It’s better to focus on our own selves instead of worrying what other people are doing. What has worrying about other people done for us lately?
There’s this “people are so selfish” statement too going on in every angle. Sounds performative from some of the observations I’ve made. None of our acts have been altruistic as y’all make it seem.
everybody’s desires during this are coming from a selfish place. Yes even the desires to keep from getting sick and to save as many lives. Nothing wrong with that.
Just interesting to observe when the same people who are mad at the people who don’t quarantine themselves are saying things like “I hope the virus takes them out” and “how selfish of them for wanting to stay out”
Observing that some people For whatever reason can’t stay home and it’s not like it’s our responsibility to force them to stay in. We say “stay home except for work or essentials” but isn’t that coming from a place of self?
LA is now urging folks to not go grocery shopping for the week. Not sure who this would apply to but some folks are not happy to comply bc they say they’ll starve
Some folks are being denied their medication bc their medicine is a potential cure for the virus and the question goes “are the folks selfish because they don’t want to be denied their medication or are the others selfish for taking their medication?”
The answer doesn’t need to be had, I just notice how the selfish argument can be put down in different angles and to every party involved, the others are selfish.. can be argued as such too.
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Obviously it’s a case by case basis but some people’s situations are so complex and they may not necessarily get the compassion from folks who just insist on people staying home bc “I wanna be out by summer time! 
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Or the more serious one “bc I’ll surely die from virus if I get sick... so please stay home even if you’re not safe at home” tricky.
Point is, we all have our reasons why we do and feel the way we feel during this time. Based on our intellectual and emotional capacities, and our knowledge and awareness, we act accordingly. I don’t blame ya.
I will say, I really do like how this virus has led to an interesting revealing of people’s inner lives. Like “this is how you behave during a crisis... maybe we wouldn’t mesh together”
And I say that as someone who is more calmer about this stuff lately, my “friends” who are panicking probably would not like to be around me either.
And I’m pretty sure my public thoughts on this would rattle them up if they were following me on Twitter. I’d be deemed a selfish and heartless cunt probably by my nonchalantness or weird “centrist” view.
Not that I consider myself as such but I think a lot about all sides and argument angles and I like to be open to them for thoughtful purposes - and I think I would be hated for that by people who follow me.
I hold no attachment to any beliefs or politics and that can be a problem to some folks I know who strongly argue “the personal is political” all the time. I definitely can see that but it’s weird to explain why I don’t hold on to it so strongly.
Oh yeah, I have beliefs and some of them are strong that I’ll argue for them BUT I don’t think about rejecting any view outside of my own. I just hope to see strong and numerous convincing evidence.
Not long ago I saw a video of two people arguing about gender being a spectrum and it was interesting how lacking in ability the folks were in arguing that gender is a spectrum...
Obviously I believe it is, but the folks arguing against it were arguing well, and made interesting points whereas the folks I should have been rooting for just kept using the argument as the main point and being very emotional about it.
Anyway it sucked seeing that but it was interesting nonetheless, and this thread has gone off the original point so ima go to sleep now.
