The Frustration of Stagnancy

[Plenum]

I think one of the worst feelings to experience is that of being stagnant, or the sense that you aren't making any progress. Not learning basically.

Stagnancy is one of the reasons why people hate school so much ('I'm not learning anything useful'), why people hate their job ('I'm wasting my time here'), and why people really, deep down, may fear retirement ('so many hours to fill').

and truly, even if one is making incremental progress, that is enough for most.

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but even the sense of being frustrated is good feedback. It's a feedback for the self - hey, what you are currently doing is not quite working, or it's not adapted to the environment, some sort of internal or external change is required to get you into some sort of greater alignment.

so while stagnancy feels like the worst (boredom, apathy, lack of meaning/drive, frustration, vapidness), it's basically an opportunity to recognise that change is required.

and we all have the power to shift our perspective. And once the perspective is shifted, all manner of external changes become seen that weren't previously seen with the other perspective.