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Acedia
Last updated
Aug 15, 2023
# Reference
# Notes
- Cards/Acedia (sloth): “the loss of care”
- A loss of urgency, passion, desire to do something
- Think: Have you fit the noontime of your commitments? Acedia is the temptation (our reaction)
- Definitions
- St. Thomas Aquinas defined Acedia as ==taedium operandi:== “disgust towards work”
- He also defined it as ==tristitia de bono divino:== “a sorrow towards a spiritual good”
- Sadness someone feels towards being loved
- How does acedia manifest itself? (in our efforts towards maganimity)
- Giving up easily when boredom strikes
- We need to remember that boredom does not equal to ==being in the wrong place==
- Think beyond boredom!
- We tend to rationalize leaving out of boredom in many ways: unhappiness, lack of growth, etc.
- Just because you are unhappy does not necessarily mean that you are not growing
- Commitment > passion. Commitment is consistent, while passion is like the weather – which comes and goes
- Think about long-term trajectory
- Going uphill is tiring but it stregnthens you
- Desolation v.s. boredom
- Desolation leads to our worst instincts
- Boredom is just a shallow sign of this ^
- Getting constantly distracted
- You can be active in acedia…doing everything but what you need to do. Acedia = ==procrastination==
- Procrastination is not laziness. It just means ==being busy doing the wrong things.==
- We ignore the call to love, because the most important person is ourselves. (See: Self-love and Cards/Pusillanimity)
- The solution to acedia: Fight it head-on. (Just keep swimming!)