I saw a lot of interest in personal growth and betterment so this is the place to tell us what you’re proud of and hype up other community members 💚
I sometimes wonder what constitutes betterment. If it is happiness or on the contrary feeling temporarily unhappy to feel happier later ? Is it attaining values that contemporaty society has deemed desirable?
Health sounds like one aspect that is relatively objective. Physical fitness, mental wellbeing. But what if things that society put on pedastal degrade our mental and physical health? Is it worsement ?
I guess the question is collectivism vs individualism
I’ve been trying to cultivate my home as a place my friends feel comfortable showing up to. There’s a bunch of people (too many) in my life who are going through tough stuff, and lately more and more they just show up for a chat, reading a book in peace and quiet, or sleep over and have a night away from home if they need it.
It’s not so much them being welcome that feels like an accomplishment (because that’s just a given), but rather that they seem to have internalized that it’s OK to ask for help/support and feel comfortable enough with me/us to come here.
As I’m typing this out I’m not sure if this fits in the “betterment” category, but it’s a positive change in my life I’ve noticed and worked on lately, so submitting it anyway. 😊
As someone who has needed a friend’s couch to crash on during periods of instability, just in order to keep other portions of life from falling apart too, I think what you’re doing fits well.
