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"Pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing, and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors, so now it's like 'the point of doing them is to get good at them' and not 'this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives.'"
My baby niece started bobbing up and down when a song came on, happily waving her little fists and shaking her little diaper butt.
I was like "that's terrible, you'll never be a star, keep your day job you untalented hack!"
I don't get it. Do all of it if it makes you happy, but get paid if you can and love doing what you do...
some people make steel frying pans all day to pay the bills, some people sing at restaurants to entertain them, others people work in the kitchen to fry them both their dinner
Only if you let them. I do all these things without regard to skill. Maybe surround yourself with more laid back people?
Real I'm 14 and this is deep vibes.
Nobody's gonna stop you from doing any of that. Well, maybe from singing in public but that's less about skill and more about not disturbing others by being loud and obnoxious.
My partner made up a word - Dysfunctionlust: the pleasure you get from doing something that you feel no pressure to be good at.
She's quite a good writer but super hard on herself about it, whereas drawing is a dysfunctionlust for her and so quite relaxing.
It's based on the German word funktionslust: the joy of an organism doing what it's meant to do, like a dog running.
Can't not see the "Dysfunctionslut" in there, though. 🤷🏽♂️😅
That's also great! Dysfunctionslut is much cooler than just saying "I have really bad ADD"
I think these things still exist on the full spectrum of “feels human, so do it!” to “you’re so great, it’s a skill you can use to earn a living.” There are tons of things like this. Cooking, massage, comedy, playing an instrument…nearly any service or entertainment skill. Believe me, ain’t nobody gonna pay to hear me sing (maybe to stop…), but I still sing along at the top of my lungs (when it won’t torture anyone) because it makes me feel happy!
ETA: This is nothing new. See “bards.”
"ETA"?
“Edited to Add”
Be the change you want to see, no one will stop you. I certainly won't.