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Is Walking Away a valid life strategy? 2016-12-21 02:52:27 Post No. 17878609
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Walking away from arguments, from shitty situations, from sources of stress.
If a girl or acquaintance is getting on my nerves, I just ghost, walk away and cut contact. If I come across someone with a fundamentally different world view than me, I just let them do their thing and walk away from any "debate". If I'm on a project going south, I'll still do the work, but I'll mentally check out and not give a shit if it succeeds or fails.
I feel like I'm taking the "do your own thing" mentality to an extreme and creating a bubble for myself by just ignoring the world around me as I see fit. On one hand I'm becoming more comfortable with being myself and owning my identity, but on the other hand it's a bit isolating.
Is there merit to argue with people who will never change their minds? Is there any benefit to stress myself out over things I can't control?
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>>17878609
wew lad. sounds like a coping/defense mechanism you developed when your parents would "abandon" you and gtfo to vacations and shit when you were a lil kid
its a way to avoid being hurt
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>>17878609
It's allright to keep yourself away from needless stress and fools who will bring nothing of value to your life.
But the problems happen when you close yourself off entirely. Conflict for its own sake is bad, but ignoring/fleeing from problems instead of trying to fix them is not okay either.
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>>17878609
Conflict builds character. Youre not willing to face conflict, then you're not gonna mature as an adult. You need ti learn to reason with other people and be willing to see things from their perspectives, so you can understand why theyre all acting like a bunch of fucking retards.
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>>17878844
>You need ti learn to reason with other people and be willing to see things from their perspectives, so you can understand why theyre all acting like a bunch of fucking retards.
For what reason? As long as I can fight for mine and keep my personal freedoms why should I even try to empathize with (from my pov) the crazies?
Why would a gay man want to empathize with a bible thumping homophobe or vice versa?
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>>17879037
Not that anon, but understanding why someone has a different point of view may either alter your own, or give you more arguments for defending it. In all cases, seeing different perspectives betters your own understanding.
There is, of course, also the point where you genuinely understand the other point of view and you think it's stupid, but nothing you say gets trough, which was what I was hoping this thread would address.
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