There’s endless amounts of content surrounding the benefits of not-caring.
Firstly, you become stoic, can handle higher amounts of pressure, emanate with an aura of absolute self control— some people like you more for it, supposedly. These ARE benefits—
—BUT these benefits only come from the unimportant things.
“Not caring” or the detachment part of it that people are usually referring to, only makes life better if you apply it to meaningless shit.
Example, try not to care when someone cuts you off driving, or when that idiot at your work is… being an idiot. You shouldn’t care about what you can’t control, that’s misery (it’s also stoicism, so there ya go).
But the benefits to GIVING AF (about the right things—things within your control) is what makes life awesome.
If you don’t give anything your all, you never fully discover the potential of things.
Passion is an attitude… in some ways.
You have to cultivate fascination, choose to fully dive into something and learn about its inner workings, choose to be fanatic about it, and why?
Why do all this?
Because after years, it turns into a love that sustains you. By doing this (caring about your craft or chosen field) you’re choosing to LIVE.
That’s been the biggest realization for me.
Passion isn’t something you find that brings that level of joy out of you, it’s actually an interest that you CHOOSE to commit and take all the way.
So, will you?
Will you live a half-assed life just floating about or commit to the thing you’re kinda into and go all the way? (hint: if you can’t do it for 10 years, move onto something else).
–FOOL
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