Everybody wants to be a groovy hippy enlightened life coach teacher doctor healer

[liveonearth]

What's up with that? I mean, as I look around, I am on this path toward naturopathy. Everybody I know or meet is going toward nursing or doctoring or acupuncturing, or working as a massage therapist, or treating addicts, or teaching yoga or meditation or nutrition, or opening up a practice, or getting a new certification, or writing a book about all the important stuff they've learned in life. We're all doing it. Some are ahead of others, but we're all going the same direction, like lemmings. Everybody's got a web page. Everybody's self-promoting, wanting to be the guru, wanting to be paid for what we know. We all are hip and cool. What next?

I wonder when the day will come that there's no money for what we know and can communicate, and the matter becomes what can we DO. Besides teach. Who was it that said those who can't do, teach? And why is it that my life is full of gurus or every stripe?? Or is it that my life is full of entrepreneurs, those who have the smarts to separate a sucker from his money for no more than an idea or an experience? And what in life is worth more than an idea or experience? And are they actually making a living with all this purveying of insight? Am I in a bubble? I must be in a tiny little cultural bubble.

I know I'm going around in circles. Seems to be status quo.

The question is, how does a guru dress? And how sincere does the smile really have to be? Because after a while, all those phoney blissed out guru smiles really get tired. It's hard to maintain the appearance of enlightenment. A lot of work, and the veneer is full of gaps.

Comments

[hausfrauatu.livejournal.com]

I don't know very many people that fit that description. :)

Then again, I don't meet people at yoga classes or live in Portland, either. Ha ha. TBH, people in those 'fields' generally annoy the crap out of me, and I wouldn't want to spend any time with them. (Nurses are ok...they are usually well grounded.) They usually are trying to sell me something like supplements or a class. And then I feel a bit sad, because I feel a lack of genuine interest or friendship on their part. I hate the feeling that I am being hustled. If I want something, I'll buy it. Sheesh...

I like people who really have expertise in what they do. Not like the short timer credentials a lot of the jobs you mention have. Mostly, though, I like people who amuse me. I learn a lot from these whackjobs. I probably only have one friend who even vaguely aspires to being a 'healer', and he generally turns it off when he's not at work. But I would say most of my friends do not have life figured out, are acutely aware of this fact, and are astounded that we only get about 80 years to figure it out, and wished that they could figure out what the heck is going on. We also do not seem to have any desire to have someone else give us their answer.

That would be cheating. Taking someone else's answer. Or it's like those math problems you'd get in High School that you'd work on forever and bang your head against the desk only to find out in class that it was unsolvable. I do enjoy how you "show your work"!

[liveonearth.livejournal.com]

Guess I am in a bubble. Can't wait to get out of it! I f*ing hate all the bliss bs....much prefer down to earth, tell it like it is, admit it that we're all screwed up and clueless and love it anyway. Unsolvable....and showing your work.....adds up to journaling around in ever smaller circles until I write my way up my own ass. Here goes!