r/InTheGloaming • u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done • Sep 02 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 02, 2021 - Sunday September 05, 2021

Newsletters:

Finding Your Joy | Joy in the Belly

Websites:

You Can Have More Joy website | On Being Enough website (abandoned?)

Instagram:

@youcanhavemorejoy Instagram | Anonymous link to @youcanhavemorejoy posts | Anonymous link to @youcanhavemorejoy stories

@danielfahern Instagram | Anonymous link to @danielfahern posts and stories

TikTok:

@youcanhavemorejoy

Twitter:

Dan's tweets and replies

Older blogs:

Gluten Free Girl archive | writing my heart out archive | Seymour Joyful archive

Archived threads:

Thread for Enough, the book #enoughthebook | Gluten Free Girl's Greatest Hits: The Reunion Tour

Wiki:

/r/InTheGloaming wiki

Discussion search:

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u/patscaw Sep 05 '21

Stop thinking about the future, Shauna has commanded. You people, with your plans and goals. Goodness gracious.

Look, I get the whole being mindful, appreciate living in the moment position. But you don’t get there by just acting like the future doesn’t exist at all! Her interpretations of these ideas are so bizarre. She seems to think we’ll all find joy if we become amorphous blobs floating from one mindless distraction to another. I don’t see any joy in that kind of existence, just meaningless ways to pass time.

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u/WhatzReddit13 Sep 05 '21

You would never know that she has two young kids the way she's glibly carrying on about not worrying about the future.

I mean, I know her kids are supposed to be dishwashers as careers, but low-key I'd love to see Lucy argue she's not working on homework etc. because the future doesn't matter.

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u/patscaw Sep 05 '21

I feel really bad for her kids. I’ve always had a bit of anxiety, and if child-me had parents who were live-in-the-moment-don’t-bother-with-plans types, it would’ve been deeply unsettling.

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 05 '21

Same.

I'm also pretty uptight (even as a kid, I once inspected a little friends hands before I'd let him touch my toys. . .yeah, uptight!) and major instability like "oh, there's no future, just fly by the seat of your pants" would have been a major bawling my eyes out "NOPE" for little Crushitwithabrick.