Honestly the realisation is one I've been through myself, though mine was less 'epiohany in the sunlight and snow' and more a shouting match with someone which ended with 'I don't *care* what you think' and the sudden flash of realisation that I really didn't care what other people thought. I'm much happier now. Less prone to shouting matches too, which is always a plus.
StevenJQuinlan
Taliesin has such amazing insights. I SO need to see him at a table playing a game run by Brennan Lee Mulligan. I feel like the two of them could create Real Magic.
cjmizanin
He's spent hundreds of years walking the Earth, this is but one of the many things we can learn from the Immortal Being
FlipCrypt
Taliesin is the real deal. Brian is such a good interviewer. I miss his interviews and Talks Machina.
feldweible
He's right, we should all strive to just be ourselves. The reason why everyone says it and it sounds cheesy is because it's...well, true. It's not that easy at first cus you have to stop worrying about it, but it's the best call
Voc_spooksauce
This interview is not only one of my favourite pieces of things released by critical role but media in general, I had such a similar experience in regards to that wounded feeling and just going "I need another plan" that this hits as hard as a stone.
razagan
the gift of going into your thirties poor and single, and surviving trauma and depression. the 'wait, but i don't give a fuck' mentality hits hard and it's daunting but freeing. i stopped working jobs i hate for money i don't need. my health is more important than satifying corporate assholes. i don't need a partner or children to take care of and sacrifice time for if i don't want to. the only real important things are community and the environment. i have nothing to prove to anybody so i'll exist on my terms. i have nothing to lose.
ysucae
I thought the title said Taliesin's epilepsy and I became very concerned.
garrettcarter
Taliesin is amazing here. Such a strong message in a short clip, approval of others and trying to change your real self in order to please them is just gonna make you unhappy. Especially when they dislike you, there will always be people who do not like you. But there are a fair share you do and those are the people you can vibe with for a long time.
artistofcybertron
"If I am not going to be not-liked by these people. I am going to be not-liked for good reasons."
rooski
I really miss this period in time when the between the sheets series was coming out. Peak CR.
xXfighterofthefooXx
Welcome to Stoicism, Taliesin! "It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own." --Marcus Aurelius
WorgenGrrl
Definition of self acceptance thats hard to compare to.
brianvincent
It's the people who hate anyone who's different who are the ones most afraid of being themselves.
falcychead
I also wonder if he was talking about accepting how chaotic and random the universe is. I feel like you could interpret his "making this work" as trying to find some greater purpose or meaning in all of it, while Tal came to the conclusion that...shit happens.
samuelstensgaard
Had the same realization watching the sunrise from a balcony in the costa rican mountains. Unfortunately the family doesnt understand but that was expected. My true family did. All that matters.
comickazii
This exact quote save me back 2019, it makes me at ease after being cheated, losing my hobbies, betrayed by a friend and idk i dont remember any now
wildankautsar
oh thank god, someone else realized how this works...
when i had this moment in my life i called it my "fuck it adjustment" after a line i heard in a standup routine years before
it was right around my 2nd year of highschool when something in my brain just said "i... dont care anymore" i just sat there and asked myself after a big public blow up why is was so upset and all i could get was "because they made me upset" but that didnt make sense to me
it was from that thought that i learned how to "manipulate my own emotions" i started to develop methods of letting an emotion come, indulge it just long enough to feel relief, then let it go before i can feel anything more from it
now i can feel something one second and just drop it and move on the next
for example if im angry ill let myself rant about it for a bit and BOOM its gone... i indulged it and more or less talked to myself and worked it out
i feel like this skill has saved my life
i have nothing no reason to keep going but the possibility that things will get better and its been like this for 5 years only getting worse. i think about death and how i would do it and what it would do to those around me yet any emotional motivation i feel to do it i can just let go of and it not come back unless i pick it back up which i do sometimes out of a morbid curiosity to see if something has changed and if it will scare me
its still just to this day "a thing i could do just as reasonable as any other if it werent for the cost" ive grown accustomed to suffering why end it all when i can see where it leads?
after all
living is just another step to see where the last one dumped you so id rather walk where i can see what the ground looks like even if i dont like it
freakyskull
Powerful words for anyone to live by. Got a feeling about exactly what's the relevant reasons to how he came about this is. as it's exactly my struggle now. Taliesin Jaffe is amazing.
Dreader
Very poetic and far more impactful way of saying "fuck the haters." So long as you're not hurting anyone, there's nothing wrong with being yourself. If someone doesn't like you that's their fault, not yours. Don't waste your time on them.
