Seriousness should be earned, respect should be earned

 

Your viewpoint is worthwhile merely because it is yours, when it is honest. I agree

But that doesn’t mean it earned the attention of others

(NOR does it mean that those viewpoints that have the attention of others — were earned)

 

A viewpoint can be worthwhile but just not serious, because it did not make contact with the world / reality / theory

Once it makes contact — it ceases being merely your problem — and becomes something more

 

Indeed, if it’s truly worthwhile, to you — and then also makes contact with the world / reality — it becomes serious

If it’s merely piquing your interest, so that you dabble in it, out of boredom, maybe you scroll it or fucking whine about it this evening — that’s not truly worthwhile to you.

And if by chance it makes contact with the world — that doesn’t make it serious. Plenty of nonsense captures common imagination for no good fucking reason.

 

Your problem, viewpoint, experience, may really make no contact with the outside world,

and it doesn’t mean it’s “worthless”

Your life is all you have and it really mostly happens when no one’s watching

Your day-to-day problems don’t intend to reinvent any theory

Of the many thoughts you’re having — only so many shall be put to use, then tested in action

Doesn’t mean it’s all worthless

Nor does it mean it earned the same seriousness

 

Why does it matter?

Because we confuse those different notions:

Of course to chase, without conviction, what the world extols — is an utterly hollow prospect

But so are delusions of self-importance, exaltation about oneself and one’s observations and one’s ideas

But so is self-rejection, when it fails to meet certain threshold of worldly approval, fails to make it through the gatekeepers

If it’s worthwhile to you — it IS worthwhile. Just maybe not as serious as the work which is out there for others to take, build upon, and maybe rip apart