Very well said. Each paragraph contains ideas I have said my self in less well written prose indeed.
Nice piece.
To add on to your last statement, I have wondered about what it means to raise children in a way that maximizes their ability to discern TRUE meaning and TRUE value. I don't have a solid answer but a part of it lies in the Rumspringa tradition of the Amish and echoed in a way by your last statement.
I have found that TRUE meaning in life, true satisfaction comes from the opportunity to experience true wealth and true loss. This has been a mark of my own life experience, but also an observation of watching others struggle to figure out what to value. Someone that has only ever had poverty will always thirst for greener pastures. Someone born into and living in wealth will be consumed by a kind of dull understanding of them selves and the world. Only if you have had the opportunity to taste riches (and pay the price that you need to pay to get them) as well as deep deep loss do you eventually figure out that we surround our selves with a matrix of bullshit and all that matters is your family and your people. I would give up everything to be able to spend regular time with my people around a fire grilling and just listening to them tell stories and play games. That is all that matters.
Rumspringa is a kind of understanding of that. It allows young Amish men to go out and taste wealth and freedom so that if they chose to return to the Amish austere life they have done so having gained understanding of value. Your last point speaks to that in a lyrical way.
I agree.
Thank you for the Rumschpringe…
This makes perfect sense - contextually this is collectively our birthing pain.
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