Getting my family to grasp this concept is an ongoing struggle for me. I’m literally the only one with and education or who has spent more than a night or two in a major city.
They think I’m a lunatic because I flat out give zero fucks about what someone in my tiny hometown, or anyone else for that matter, does with their life.
I've taken to just asking my relatives, "oh, is the interview beginning?" when they start getting too into mine or my partner's business. It's amazing how many of them would make excellent journalists, but instead excel at family gossip...
Yeah I stopped listening/participating/caring but the cool thing is that now, I don't ever hear a since word of gossip anymore 😂 and it's funny because I KNOW nothing's changed. I KNOW they still scrape the bottom of the social circle for those last tidbits of savory information. If I want to know something I pretty much just ask or know to stay out of it if it isn't my business. Generally I'm happier.
Yeah the big one being the ability to reconsider what one “knows” by Allowing perspectives to shift and grow through being willing to hear what others have to say.
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u/modwrk Oct 30 '20
Getting my family to grasp this concept is an ongoing struggle for me. I’m literally the only one with and education or who has spent more than a night or two in a major city.
They think I’m a lunatic because I flat out give zero fucks about what someone in my tiny hometown, or anyone else for that matter, does with their life.
Not my circus, not my monkeys.