While the hot water from the shower head cherishes my body I think: why not go along with the flow? Since my day looks different and a fixed schedule is no longer possible for me today, this seems to me a good intention for a while. Life is what happens to you when you make other plans. is a fair verdict from John Lennon. In about the same time he makes this statement, I am legally obliged to visit high school five days a week, something my parents take very seriously. After having been obscene since kindergarten, it seems to me a good idea that I am not going to go into matters that I disagree with or to revise and at least to conform to the boring grey mode vivendi of the majority, so that I can develop more easily within myself and continue to draw my own plan so undisturbed, which is quite different from that of the fellow runners, who formed the vast majority.
The verdict: The individual means nothing to the general, and the general means nothing to the individual comes to me immediately as I soak myself. The Swiss psychiatrist (I'm definitely short on him with this description!) Carl Jung makes this statement at the very beginning of part 1, Psychology and practice, part of the English translation Collected Works, in which I started yesterday for the purpose of rereading all parts. Jung's argument is about conditions for psychotherapists to start the radical process of dialectical treatment anyway. In my opinion, this part, and probably all three thousand pages of this from the many treatises written by Carl Gustav Jung, is highly recommended to many caregivers, who do not distinguish between collective and individual patients. I am not talking about the distinction that was made well into the last century between health insurance and private patients, which was equally misplaced.
The first part of the quote above clearly pertains to the insight in my sixteenth year of life, which I gained in my past school life in a hard way. After high school I quickly let go of this way of life to fight me again with a hand and a tooth against everything that was wrong with society back then. My great source of inspiration is the salmon, which has the ability to overcome waterfalls and other obstacles and can jump three meters high from the water to swim against the current during his trekking from the ocean through the same river where it was born to mate there. Good to mention is also that a salmon finds its way back using its smell.
Now, many decades later and a whole piece of home away, I come to the conclusion that the second part of Carl Jung's quote quoted here supports. The individual is ultimately invincible and may seem to have been brought down at times to below the grain size, but that is only appearance. The individualization process that Carl Jung treats in this voluptuous set of writings composed by others from his life's work is a description that is best described as self-becoming. Become who you are.
Here I stand on my own, fishing upstream in what should be a rippling mountain stream, but clearly a raging river is at times. But I stand my man, with my legs and feet firmly planted on the rocky bottom I try to keep the balance without falling under. The latter does not always succeed and a wet suit is the result regularly. Only, why would I keep trying to keep moving up against the current? It takes an immense amount of energy and time and doesn't really yield anything meaningful or useful. Whether descending with the sparkling water will really make sense yet remains to be seen. It could just mean washing my efforts away in the shower well and then what?
The inevitable development of individual life accompanied by retention No matter what The only way for me to find my own mores. This time, my inspiration in the shower is intended to ensure that this process can continue to flow, but hopefully by having to jump less high over the obstacles and in the rocks, which occur almost daily, even now that I have completely withdrawn from everyday life. More of the same, but in a slightly different way this time.
