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Feel the Burn!
I’ve been noticing a trend lately. Call it burnout, call it something else. But it seems to strike the best of us. That New World Disorder blog which I just referenced had it. Regular reader Nicq writes about it here. Other people have mentioned similar things to me. Is it just the summer time blues, or is there something else going on? Everybody needs a break from this stuff; I know that. Myself, I’ll be going away and meeting up with my family on the beach for pretty much all of next week. So I’ll be away from the computer starting Saturday, I think. Comes at a good time though, get some time to reflect and be away from all the questions and research. It weighs on me too sometimes.
Anyway, in relation to Nicq’s post on GenerationSit, a reader named Duff had this to say:
Lame.
I’ve done this before, and it doesn’t last. For me the pattern was this: learn and read too much, get frustrated with spirituality, decide to give it up, stop reading books or doing practices, have some crazy super-intense life changing experience anyway, think that the experience will last forever, things return to normal (albeit a new normal that integrates the experience), return to spirituality anew with a bit more maturity. […]
As I get slightly older, the drama of this process doesn’t throw me off as much anymore. […]
You’ll be back.
Kind of a bitchy way to phrase it - if you ask me - but maybe he has a point. Maybe it all does just work in cycles, highs and lows, good times and bad. Everybody needs time to recharge. Is anybody else out there feeling this?
- Cutting off my sun
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August 1st, 2005 at 3:48 pm
rest is an intergral part of growth. without rest we start to lose the ability to repair properly, mentally and physically. then the law of diminishing returns comes into play.
August 1st, 2005 at 3:59 pm
yep, i’m getting pretty burned out. i think it has a little to do with the feeling that one should provide a solid entry every day, a little to do with the fact that it’s fucking hot outside and i’m in a bad mood from it, and a little to do with being tired of dickhead egoists who want to make everything into a spiritual pissing contest (myself included). i’m probably going to be taking a break for a week or so myself pretty soon here, maybe as soon as tomorrow.
August 1st, 2005 at 4:21 pm
I see the burnout happening all around. I’ve definitely cut back on my output and changed the depth of my content.
As soon as Bush is out of office, people will lighten up.
August 1st, 2005 at 6:17 pm
As soon as Bush is out of office, people will lighten up.
i don`t think bush is the problem…………………………….i`d hate to think my spiritual state was dependant on politicians. i make that choice through practice. politicians aren`t there to provide solutions, enlightenment, growth, or anything. they are here to take.
if you are burning out then you have to find a place to recharge. spiritual practice is about recharging. not about reacting out of anger. that just drains some more.
August 1st, 2005 at 8:39 pm
It actually isn’t “burnout” for me, in fact I’m more motivated than I’ve been in a long time… the case was, GenSit just isn’t the place for me anymore. Things have changed…
August 1st, 2005 at 9:17 pm
Sorry, I didn’t mean to mischaracterize your motivations!
August 1st, 2005 at 9:53 pm
it is pretty hot outside, even at night
August 1st, 2005 at 11:40 pm
Except the Republican nominee in 2008 is almost certain to be…Jeb Bush. And the Christian Dominionists are still in control of the companies that manufacture the voting machines, so…
August 2nd, 2005 at 3:15 am
I’m definitely feeling some malaise. (Maybe it’s ‘catching.’ LOL) Been feeling stagnant and uninspired.
August 2nd, 2005 at 12:36 pm
[…] lly slow, both around here and in my brain. Tim wonders if there’s a general “burnout” going on, and I think that may have something to do with it. I’ […]
August 2nd, 2005 at 6:08 pm
I can’t speak for all egoist dickheads, but this egoist dickhead gets a great deal of good insight out of comparing ideas with everyone else. A great deal of confusion is involved with the complicated semantics of spiritual matters, and fools like myself pursue resolving it anyway, and eventually it becomes painful.
It gets tiresome however, and I totally see a lull going on around here, my entries have been lazy at best, and even big shots like Americablog.org and poe-news are slacking off…. I’ve got school starting up shortly, a new job, trying to live somewhere that’s not an alley. I bet a lot of folks are getting ready for the same sort of thing. Get some rest and come back soon, all of you.
I have a feeling Tim will be writing like a type-happy madman as usual, lull or no lull.
August 2nd, 2005 at 9:03 pm
I’m gonna start a band! I need a drummer and a bass player.