Will do, saving the space.
Edit: Just did a bit of this with my dad, who was talking to me about very grave stuff around me getting a job and how i’m liable to have no future if i don’t start my life soon.
What was most interesting were the pulls - the pull to put him at ease, to assure him it’s all fine, and the pull to prove that I really can’t solve my parents’ problem, manifest as my catastrophic future.
Instead I just sat and mostly listened. At one point he mentioned the guys outside wandering around with no future, then I giggled, and he was like “don’t laugh.” And I said “well the guys outside and the guys in the houses have the same future.” Pulls 1, Me 0.
But yeah, it’s becoming clearer that I can’t resolve other people’s anxieties. Even in a case like this where there’s an apparent causal link (I fix my life → parents are happy), there’s no immediate solution I can provide, and the pulling of mind moves in spite of the fact that I can’t help anyone, to cover it up and promise resolution.
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