Thread: Apathy: the root of experience?

I've realized that apathy has come into many parts of my life which orginally I did not think was a problem. I feel like its led me to take more leaps in my life like start a business and start painting: becuase in a way Apathy is behind courage as well. It stems from despair, but then when a person becomes determined to take action they are now more fearless.

Still, I've now realized that the best type of courage is when you are willing to take risks because of how much you CARE about something.

I think to some extent experiencing a large degree of apathy has allowed me to cut out many of the things in my life that were not important.

Nonetheless, I get the feeling that Apathy is at the root of all experience and is something I will have to struggle against my whole life, because it is a weakness of spirit?

Does anyone have any comments?

That's an interesting twist on stuff. The one thing I'm not seeing is how apathy would be behind you making decisions in life. If you can either start a business or not start a business, and you don't care which you do, you probably won't actually create a business, unless some outside factor (someone else) prompts you to.

I think you're talking more about "not caring about the outcome of stuff" right? And you're using "apathy" to describe "it's ok to fail" . And in that sense, it does make a lot of... sense. If you ever want to succeed, you have to take calculated risks. You can't guarantee success, but you can strategically take the risks that have the best chances of putting you ahead of the game. Then, overall, you WILL be ahead of the game, but you have to allow yourself to go on the chopping block.

I don't think you can really say apathy and courage are one and the same. With courage, you take your calculated risks and understand the possible outcomes (i.e. plan for the best, be ready for the worst). With apathy, you're more likely to make dangerous, uncalculated risks, and even if you get lucky and succeed, it's no way to live your life, because you WILL lose everything. I think it's the path to a life of gambling.

If I wern't so lathargic I would be more apathetic.

Yea I think you are absolutely right Replicon