It doesn't feel like ungratefulness. Not at all. It feels like a push for more real interactions. Online spaces have been great in many ways, but they often get distilled into a simple acknowledgement, or sometimes not even that. It's nice to know if something resonated with other people. If they have more to add. There's something beautiful about sharing experiences with others so that we can go both wider and deeper in our perceptions. Sometimes it can be hard to remember that there's flesh and bones on the other side of the screen. That there are real people with a whole world that they are creating and living. I don't think we're meant to be so separate.
I was really tired last night, and couldn't write much. But still wanted to tell you that what you wrote resonated. To have that small blip of connection.
I feel a resonance with the cycle of external validation you describe, though I have felt it lessening and healing in recent times. And interestingly I also spent much of my childhood as a "creekmason", shaping and redirecting flows of small streams for hours.
For me, the healing process, the restoration of self-resonance, has also been a journey back through my life, to the very beginning, to find the "holes" that were not filled, the ways in which I was not seen or acknowledged.
I honor your commitment to choose resonance rather than validation, even if it means I have less to read :-).
So on Discord, I feel pretty confident I can feel resonance. I often put it down to the latency in the conversation—it’s less like writing letters and more like having a conversation (though of course, not quite there.) And on the other hand, as I’ve said, a Like can be conceptualized as a degraded, deep-fried, pixilated experience of resonance.
But where does a comment like this one land? It doesn’t belong to either extreme…
To me the answer is clear. You were thoughtful, vulnerable, and willing to hold space. I *definitely* got a ping of attunement to your wavelength!
Sisyphean vibes, accepting of his fate!
Sisyphus definitely knows the Archetypal Wavelength!
I feel this. Not much more to say than that. Also, I like rocks too. I wanted to comment instead of adding a like. It felt "righter."
I was just talking to one of the Creekmasons about how I don’t want to seem ungrateful. Likes are still nice. Lol.
But sharing a little bit about yourself is even nicer. (Whether it’s righter or not, it definitely feels nicer.)
Thanks!
It doesn't feel like ungratefulness. Not at all. It feels like a push for more real interactions. Online spaces have been great in many ways, but they often get distilled into a simple acknowledgement, or sometimes not even that. It's nice to know if something resonated with other people. If they have more to add. There's something beautiful about sharing experiences with others so that we can go both wider and deeper in our perceptions. Sometimes it can be hard to remember that there's flesh and bones on the other side of the screen. That there are real people with a whole world that they are creating and living. I don't think we're meant to be so separate.
I was really tired last night, and couldn't write much. But still wanted to tell you that what you wrote resonated. To have that small blip of connection.
Hopefully that makes sense.
Feeling seen 🥰
Makes total sense to me and I caught your blip for sure!
I feel a resonance with the cycle of external validation you describe, though I have felt it lessening and healing in recent times. And interestingly I also spent much of my childhood as a "creekmason", shaping and redirecting flows of small streams for hours.
For me, the healing process, the restoration of self-resonance, has also been a journey back through my life, to the very beginning, to find the "holes" that were not filled, the ways in which I was not seen or acknowledged.
I honor your commitment to choose resonance rather than validation, even if it means I have less to read :-).
So on Discord, I feel pretty confident I can feel resonance. I often put it down to the latency in the conversation—it’s less like writing letters and more like having a conversation (though of course, not quite there.) And on the other hand, as I’ve said, a Like can be conceptualized as a degraded, deep-fried, pixilated experience of resonance.
But where does a comment like this one land? It doesn’t belong to either extreme…
To me the answer is clear. You were thoughtful, vulnerable, and willing to hold space. I *definitely* got a ping of attunement to your wavelength!
Thanks for writing:)