RE: Do you empower or restrict others?
I know many authors on Steem who have lost attention because they continually take negative positions with many not actually looking at the ecosystem as a whole, just their personal experience of it. The same authors then blame their outcomes on the community and platform, with no self-reflection at all on what they themselves offer or the atmosphere they create with the audience.
Well, even when I think your social assessment is very accurate/correct and what is expressed in this article runs on the right track of common sense.
Nonetheless, I am one of those who also believe that the world already has its good portion of sweet, smiling, lovey-dovey Mary Poppins everywhere. Those who comes flying with their funny hat and posh umbrellas spitting away their Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious magic spell in an attempt to put rosy glasses of unconditional positivism on everyone else faces in their surroundings cheerfully and enthusiastically seeking to help as many people as they can through the magical power of their advices.
And then, at the same time, there are also a few good natured one-man-band, jack-of-all-trades Berts. The chimney sweeper underdogs wearing their worn-out clothing and their faces always covered in soot. Who while eventfully cheerful singing Chim Chim Cher-ee dancing with animated penguins sometimes and pushing out some nuances of their impromptu poetry.
"Wind's in the east, mist coming in. Like somethin' is brewin', and bout to begin. Can't put me finger on what lies in store. But I fear what's to happen all happened before."
Very well they knew, that there was and there is much more still to discover deeper through the rabbit hole to find the naked truth to narrate it and tell it as it is. Specially if they were/are curious enough and willing to swap positions and perspectives from the other side of the fence all the time.
I hope you don't take this comment as something negative my friend. Since it is just an odd exercise of my own self-reflection through a mere thought provoking response that simply leads you to weighing why some people behave as they behave sometimes.
As I suspect you already know. Due to my current age. I'm one of those who likes to stroll a little bit more thru the healthy cynic side of things. Usually wearing a different set of colorless glasses with a light dye of a 'defensive pessimism' most of the time. Because I really believe that at this point in the game. These kind of glasses are the ones that offer you a more impartial vision and reliable perspective of the outcomes with greater anticipatory logic and trusty reasoning.
Such as I reckon John Keating would say:
"In this class you can either call me Mr Keating," "Or if you're slightly more daring, 'O captain, my captain'."
There is nothing wrong with being cynical, there is nothing wrong with criticism - there are healthy ways and unhealthy ways to do so however. And, if one is looking for social support in whatever form that might take, one has to consider the way it is approached and how others will perceive it. While one might not care about what others think, if simultaneously one is looking for support from those same people, it is going to get uncomfortable.
Yes, you are absolutely right and clear on this. And I agree with this statement big time. :)
Yep, and it is precisely in this level of things in life when age, advanced age, start playing an important role in how one is looking for social support now. Since after many previous experiences doing it in the same way as everyone else. Now that we are approaching the exit door of this plane. I guess we are now finally a bit more prone to change glasses more often and watch the things fearless such as they are and tell everybody what we see regardless the same, more or less social support we could get.
What is primordial this time, is separate the wheat from the chaff. No matter how high or how low the support of the masses can be to confirm if we are right or wrong about what we are clearly perceiving in front of us. From that moment on, is when the candidates to whom we previously felt the need to agree with, justify ourselves or to account for their support are beginning to be in short supply.
Many years of time investments to learn the lessons are enough to know that we must tell the story such as we are witnessing it regardless social agreement and their eventual support.
Again, Agreed!! it certainly is going to get uncomfortable. But also take in account and never lose sight that all this is just matter of age. :)
Cheers!!
"such as they are" is never the case as personal perspective will always apply a filter. "such as they are to me" might be a more accurate statement.
And as we witness it through the lens of experience, we have to allow for the possibility that we do not see clearly through eyes degraded by our past and expectations of the future.
Exactly!! that's all we know fer sure. };)
Yep, and yet there are also a few with "Delirium Tremens" breaking loose everywhere. :)