Blog Entry No. 3 On Recuperative Praxis
This modern world has impacted us humans a lot especially in terms of our communication. Instead of talking to people effectively like sharing ideas, thoughts or emotions that will benefit each other most of us spend much of our time using different technologies and forget having an idea-laden conversation. https://www.familywellnessministry.org/on-anxiety-and-depression/ I am a fighter of anxiety and depression. There are still times that I lose myself. I don't know what to do. I can't explain what I am feeling inside. It is indeed difficult finding myself laughing and then after a minute or hour I saw myself crying and over thinking about many things. It is also a crazy thing that I lose interest in anything. I sleep a lot for me to forget things and if I am not sleeping I spend my time browsing the internet, watching videos and movies. From morning to evening I just sat and lay down on my bed facing my phone. Instead of sharing my problems to my parents and friends I prefer keeping it to myself. Here, I was suffering from “deadness of [their] soul” Richard Winter (2002), that stopped me from communicating effectively and brought me to phatic communication. Also, my family and friends checked me personally and through chat. But once I answer their question if I’m okay or not and say that I’m okay even if I am not, our conversation stops there. There was no thorough discussion and connection. I was able to realize the recuperative praxis should be learned by everyone especially those people who keeps their problems themselves. Recuperative Praxis according to Annette Holba ( 2011), is something that will help people understands themselves and others. Under this recuperative praxis there is a philosophical leisure. It is not just a time for relaxation and entertainment but rather it is a time for someone to realize and reflect about his/her potential and rebuild its own soul. And once he/she understand this dilemma happening inside his/her it will also the time he can understand the other. In short philosophical leisure can be recuperative praxis for giving an individual a time to understand his/her own self and discover his ability to be a better one. While some has a confusion about the word leisure, according to Holba essay it is not just a mere entertainment. It is not just a simple break from a workload, not just being happy watching favorite movies or musical play, or playing games with friends either indoor or outdoor. Leisure is the time to recreate ourselves, discover our abilities and free our mind from negativity and realize the best things for ourselves and for others. And philosophical leisure should come into play. According to Gadamer 2002, it is the action of philosophical leisure. A play that need an active participation that come into being . It starts from the inneraction and then interaction. As Gadamer (2002) example of philosophical play, which is chamber music, this music consists of different instrumentalists and instruments that they should play. Musicians have their own expertise depending on what instrument they are playing. And in order to be an expert they have to engage first in their own self: how would they play their instrument and know their part in the music and then connect to other musicians to create, connect and negotiate for their music production. To make it short the inner engagement can drive oneself to interact outside of himself/herself and can execute an idea-laden conversation. Thus recuperative praxis was about nourishing human communication within the self and to the others. In this topic of Annette Holba I was able to know how to heal my inner self and understand the other self and others. Thanks to recuperative praxis for letting me know those things which I could apply to myself and be the best of my ability and engage myself to conversation that is not phatic. References: Holba Annette, “Philosophical Leisure as Recuperative Praxis: Texturing Human Communication” 2011. Accessed Online 19 November 2020. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/04419057.2006.