Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom

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If so, what makes you anxious?

Suzianne

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@fmf said
If so, what makes you anxious?

Uuhhhhhh... are you breathing on me?

People who insist we are "post-covid".

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@suzianne said
People who insist we are "post-covid".

The western nations are largely in the post covid period thanks to the vaccines. But I suppose is depends on a using an agreed shared definition of “post covid”.

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@fmf said
If so, what makes you anxious?

I experience a kind of 'music anxiety' where I cannot decide what to listen to ~ or I am doing work where I cannot be listening to music at the same time ~ and the anxiety is connected to the build-up of music I perceive as queuing for my ears.

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I get slightly anxious about lots of things as I am a bit of a worrier, a tendency driven by overthinking stuff.

Getting older and perhaps not having made the best life choices, through to leaving the lawn too long between cuts.

On the other hand I’m content, happy and settled. It’s a duality thing.

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@fmf said
If so, what makes you anxious?

Family.

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@torunn said
Family.

They cause you anxiety of the "dizziness of freedom" kind?

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@fmf said
They cause you anxiety of the "dizziness of freedom" kind?

I think I missed that part. 🙂 I merely focused on 'anxiety', and anxiety for me is my family.

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@torunn said
I think I missed that part. 🙂 I merely focused on 'anxiety', and anxiety for me is my family.

"In 1844, Soren Kierkegaard wrote of anxiety as being the 'dizziness of freedom', the dizzying effect of looking into the boundlessness of one's own possibilities. Without anxiety, there would be no possibility and therefore no capacity to grow and develop as a human being." [from the interwebz]

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@fmf said
"In 1844, Soren Kierkegaard wrote of anxiety as being the 'dizziness of freedom', the dizzying effect of looking into the boundlessness of one's own possibilities. Without anxiety, there would be no possibility and therefore no capacity to grow and develop as a human being." [from the interwebz]

I suppose it is true but it's not how I feel. Unless he also means that having seen a worst possible scenario of a situation and got through it, that could give a state of 'dizziness of freedom' - gratitude/gratefulness would be a word I would use. I may still be missing a part of what you refer to though.

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@fmf said
If so, what makes you anxious?

running out of valium.

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14 May 22

@fmf said
"In 1844, Soren Kierkegaard wrote of anxiety as being the 'dizziness of freedom', the dizzying effect of looking into the boundlessness of one's own possibilities. Without anxiety, there would be no possibility and therefore no capacity to grow and develop as a human being." [from the interwebz]

Torunn wouldn't know about that. Kierkegaard was a Dane, and therefore not to be taken seriously by a Swede.

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14 May 22

@shallow-blue said
Torunn wouldn't know about that. Kierkegaard was a Dane, and therefore not to be taken seriously by a Swede.

This is a quote I like, even from a Dane 🙂 :

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

Soren Kierkegaard