I love learning about other people's cultures, and there are some beautiful cultures out there. Of course no one is perfect and there are many things wrong with every group/country. But there is a lot of beauty in so many of these cultures across the world. Native American culture, for example, I find to be very beautiful. The way they value nature. I personally feel like Western culture has become very disconnected with nature, with the beauty that is in this world, with our souls and with each other.
Social Media for example, I saw something today that made me think of all of the really cool people I have met on social media. I got rid of most of my social media a few months or a month or two ago. But I read many stories from other people's lives. Stories of people who had gone through horrors and endured, survived, rose above, stories of people who had lost things they care about, stories about the things that matter to people, their pets, family, friends, loved ones, hobbies, dreams, hopes, aspirations. I would spend all day just sitting and listening to people's stories if I could.
Sitting and crying with people for the horrors they never should have been forced to endure, listening in awe at the amazing wonders they have seen and experienced, humbled by the beauty and weight of the sacred experience and truth the each person carries. My one hope in this life is to help people feel less alone. I cannot fix anything, I cannot take away people's pain, but I can offer to carry it with them, to be there, to show them that they aren't alone. That is my main goal in life.
Humanity as a species, as a huge capacity for evil and a huge capacity for good. This is why the yin-yang symbol is my favorite symbol, it represents balance to me, how in darkness there is light and in light there is darkness.
Honestly I think therapist is a really good job for what you are describing, listening to people's problems and comforting them. Everyone has their own struggles and stories to share.
@JustMegawatt That is true, and I did want to be a therapist at one point. But IDK if would feel....wrong? to get paid to be helping people with their problems. I don't want to have to medicalize people's lives and experiences and truths. I just want to be able to listen, so they feel less alone. Sometimes people just need to be seen and heard and I feel like most of the mental health community, therapists and psychiatrists, so often try to fix people who just want to be heard and listened to and believed for once. So I am trying to figure out if there are any listening jobs that are not clinical. Local tour guide seems like a good job, idk how I would go about getting that job but I could look into it. It would be great having a job where I get to tell the story of a beautiful place and pass on its wonder to other people.
@rachelrae2003 As the therapist, wouldn't you be in charge of how to help them? So if you judge it's best to just be someone who listens then you can tell them that's your treatment on what you think is best for them, and they can ask for more if they want. It's good to have a job that you love, then you never work a day in your life!
@JustMegawatt That is true. I still don't think I would love that job though. Therapy feels, insincere to me. Like this person is getting paid to care. I would never want to be a part of the mental health system that did all those horrors to me for five years. That would feel like if I was at war with someone, and then decided to sit down and have dinner with the enemy. It is kind of hard to explain.
But absolutely, I agree, if you have a job that you love you never work. I will find out what that job is eventually, what that career is I want to do. :)
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