PeaceRobin
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- Nov 10, 2009
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Thank you all for your insightful responses. I really appreciate all of your support and suggestions. I have a serious problem with expressing my moral judgements without coming off as too harsh or judgemental when I am explaining my beliefs and what I find to be wrong with the world to those closest to me. Maybe this should be a topic for another post? I wish I could understand the root of it so it would be easier to change. It seems I am most aggressive when I'm trying to explain the global consequences and the deepest third world disparities. Maybe I am mad more people don't see the connections of their actions? Maybe some of the aggression is that I am almost part of it and want people to wake up too so it will be easier for me to change? I've also been known to get pretty aggressive with politics too, ugh, I am my own worst nightmare sometimes! Well, at least acknowlegement is the first step to change, haha.
As far as the move goes, I am moving to Paris. I know this is not a third world country but I hope to start fresh there with my actions, friends, openness about my beliefs, etc. Also, France is a good place to learn French and improve my resume to work in Africa with an NGO. Since no one will know me there I can be whoever I want, ya know, with out feeling societal pressures (or at least less). I'm scared because the city is known to prioritize fashion and I really struggle with trying concentrate on other more important worldly issues. This is my biggest problem when succumbing to my own moral beliefs vs actions. It is just something I was always taught I needed to do in order to be liked and I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that if that is what someone requires to be my friend, it's not worth having their friendship. I want friends that prioritize other things. I will be so poor living there though that I doubt I'll be able to keep up with looking cute there! I moved home for 6 months and worked a 9-5er and as a bartender to be able to afford to scrape by for a semester of an intensive French course.
Lastly, I found the monkeysphere particularly interesting when it comes to the root of the problem. How can we overcome this? As humans evolved from monkeys our brains have increased compacity from truly caring about 50 people to 150 people. At this growht rate, it would take trillions of years and the destruction of our planet before we could every truly feel for an entire population.. obviously. I wish there is something we could do to speed up this process but unfortunatley this pretty much proves we are screwed in ever really caring about everyone. I guess it would be very depressing if we did though.. or would it because that would make us change? Ok rambling now. Thanks everyone for responding
As far as the move goes, I am moving to Paris. I know this is not a third world country but I hope to start fresh there with my actions, friends, openness about my beliefs, etc. Also, France is a good place to learn French and improve my resume to work in Africa with an NGO. Since no one will know me there I can be whoever I want, ya know, with out feeling societal pressures (or at least less). I'm scared because the city is known to prioritize fashion and I really struggle with trying concentrate on other more important worldly issues. This is my biggest problem when succumbing to my own moral beliefs vs actions. It is just something I was always taught I needed to do in order to be liked and I'm trying to come to terms with the fact that if that is what someone requires to be my friend, it's not worth having their friendship. I want friends that prioritize other things. I will be so poor living there though that I doubt I'll be able to keep up with looking cute there! I moved home for 6 months and worked a 9-5er and as a bartender to be able to afford to scrape by for a semester of an intensive French course.
Lastly, I found the monkeysphere particularly interesting when it comes to the root of the problem. How can we overcome this? As humans evolved from monkeys our brains have increased compacity from truly caring about 50 people to 150 people. At this growht rate, it would take trillions of years and the destruction of our planet before we could every truly feel for an entire population.. obviously. I wish there is something we could do to speed up this process but unfortunatley this pretty much proves we are screwed in ever really caring about everyone. I guess it would be very depressing if we did though.. or would it because that would make us change? Ok rambling now. Thanks everyone for responding