GN #nostr 🌜

Today's thoughts have mainly been around engagement and its relationship to fun and enjoyment.

I'm thinking engagement is the key to finding fun. It may also be the key to finding (or transcending) meaning.

But, like fun and meaning, it cannot be the goal, but rather just part of the journey.

This does explain why I find fun in manual labor.

My counselor said that depression really first became a thing in the mid 1700s, and mostly among those who no longer had to labor daily to survive, thanks to wealth or machinery. We agree that doesn't seem coincidental.

Many more thoughts on this I am sure, but engagement is feeling like it might be up there with self-esteem in importance to our psyche, and might even solve many self-esteem issues.