When I Stop Caring

[Progress]

[When I stop caring] There are two ways you could interpret the title. "I" as in you or "I" as in me. It doesn't matter because it can be applied and should be to both.

Yesterday while discussing how to better manage a team, I aggressively and jokingly said "we will have a group chat and command them", the other person asked "Why was I being so aggressive?" I found the question astonishing as I didn't actually care much for a group chat or managing that team. The second aspect I found interesting was I was not even aware I sounded aggressive. It was a sudden impulse of charisma, life and out of amusement.

The only times I can be charismatic and really attuned to what I'm saying is when I don't care about what is being said. It is those times when I don't worry about myself that I can be ourselves. It is when I perform our best if I choose to do so as a general policy. There is no "standards" to meet. Ironically it is during those times when I don't care that it is like I do care. The work is so much more detailed, natural and innovative. It doesn't matter if others like it, I love it. The only reason it is ironic is because people are entirely ignorant about how the world works and themselves.

When I stop caring, I can stop worrying about myself and rather enjoying myself. My priorities of a financially stable income, status and network are thrown out the window. It is almost like the situation "What would you do if you were the only person alive?" All your "needs" are just what society thinks and wants you need. So when you just stop "caring", you can just be yourself and go towards the things you actually "care" about, in a non attached survival sense(aka you don't really care what happens and are picking up hobbies not jobs).

It is with this clear mindset I can decide what to do with our lives. Life is no longer about social survival or any survival but like being a kid, enjoying and throwing out what I don't care. I become minimalistic. I don't need.. want that big house, instead I want to travel for 5 years, I don't want that decree-I can buy courses on how to sell and market, I do want that degree-I'll give up eating out all the time, I love exploring new cuisines but don't care for law-I'll give up what I don't care about, My friends talk about gossip all day and I don't care for it and rather talk about how the world works all day-I'll make time for friends that share my interests. Life is simple, your desires are simple however society and your fears are not.

(Photo: Australian Dot Painting)

[Natasha]

@Progress Have you watched comedy Office Space? The main character stopped caring and as a result got everything he wanted when he did care and nothing was coming his way

 

[Progress]

@Natasha I have seen the Office Space although I remember very little. Some people think this situation is paradoxial but of course fruit is going to rot if you don't eat it!