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OftenBen  ·  3081 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 21, 2015

My new counselor suggested that I attend his mindfulness group a few times, there's a meeting tonight that I'm probably going to go to. Lately we've been discussing how important community is to the human animal, and how I really don't have much of that in my life at the moment. He's an old hippy who likes to use the word 'awakening' to describe what he sees as global trends towards conscientiousness, nonviolence and nuanced thinking. (Side note, he has a bit of a crush on lil, based on some excerpts from our conversations that I've showed him.) I think I'm definitely too young to have the kind of comforting perspective on these things that he does, but I at least have an academic appreciation for the general decline of violence in the United States. Maybe one day I'll internalize it.