{"id":47484,"date":"2022-07-24T15:34:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T15:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47484"},"modified":"2022-07-24T15:34:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T15:34:55","slug":"its-not-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/07\/24\/its-not-personal\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s not personal."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I would never tell you how to live your life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s good or bad, what’s ethically superior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How we should treat each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the planet should be saved (and if that’s even a thing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stuff like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All those things can be very important, vital even.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But only for the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t really interfere with that, because I’m simply not too interested in the personal sauce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s not elementary to me, not essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I obviously go for the common, universal thing, not the differences (even though they make human life exciting and interesting).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mostly aim to talk about and reflect on what’s hidden in plain sight, and visible to anybody who’s ready and willing to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Big Fat Elephant in the room called consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not the rest of the zoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my writing and in my coaching (and in my life in general) I’m never really interested that much in the human content, the details and the preferences, the pieces of the personal puzzle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s such an incredibly broad phenomenon, and so utterly subjective, and I truly believe that should be your own thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I get it if you think my writing and sharing sounds ‘unrealistic’ and ‘na\u00efve’ in light of all the bad shit that’s going on in the world, but that would simply mean my point is not taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not your fault, not mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do whatever the fuck you believe to be important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s up to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fight, meditate, write, struggle, explore, meditate some more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Give fucks, or don’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jump on the barricades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or stop jumping altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t feel like wasting energy over opinions, over personal considerations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m about what doesn’t change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ONLY thing that doesn’t change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s where I’m floating towards, it’s my predicament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not the truth, just an unfolding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just one of the many things people can live for and feel attracted to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And not better than what you believe in, but something that can be most definitely helpful for any life out there, no matter the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because if the basic feeling is solid, if awareness is considered and experienced, life still let’s you play in every direction, but with a different sense of stability and aliveness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope all this doesn’t sound cold, or detached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m very much in favor of connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it might be coming from a different angle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by @noodlenelson, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would never tell you how to live your life. What’s good or bad, what’s ethically superior. Morality. Politics. How we should treat each other. How the planet should be saved (and if that’s even a thing). Stuff like that. All those things can be very important, vital even. But only for the person. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[99,97,117,100,105,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47486,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47484\/revisions\/47486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}