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How to waste your life

Louis Rossman waxes poetic about child trauma

07 Oct'24

2 min read

philosophy

This video is a thought provocative piece of content. A kind of piece that allows you to expand value out of the already valuable material through your own introspection. I would quickly like to address the swift and nimble impromptu speaking style of the speaker. He is definitely not speaking from a script and still is able to weave a story together regarding a complicated and nuanced subject such as child abuse, following your dream, jealosy, fullfillness, life purpose, introvert attitude.

1. Feeling isolated

Lot of kids have gone through bullying, abuse or any sort of trauma and not been extended any help by any witness of such acts. They form a world view full of people who were accomplice in such harrowing acts in one way or another. And favor minimal interaction with outside world leading to feeling isolated and demarcated.

2. Life path

The path to healthy, fulflling life is never a straight lane. It is never the case that the goal is straight ahead of you and you just have to walk the path and you are there. The goal is indiscernible at best, and even if somehow you are clear on that goal the path is never so tame. So the only way to reach somewhere worthwhile is to just go along the leading road and look out for juicy opportunities. And for that you need to be out into the world, to understand people around you, understand what they need, what the world needs , that you can provide.

3. Closing

Now, we can see clearly above two scenarios don’t fit pretty well. You can be expected to understand what people need when every interaction is painful and reminisce of your past. We need a perspective shift for these to fit together. Author talks about the idea of projection. We project onto others motives, ethics, intentions that we hold in ourselves. When we change ourselves we change the world around us. Author suggests to just do one thing for one person that will improve their life. This will help you better yourself and see the good in the world.

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