Can 9s deeply desire disconnection and detachment from everything and everyone?
The general theme of attachment seems to be finding things outside of oneself to give you direction, purpose, or stability, but is the opposite also true? Are there attachment types who want to sever connection to everything outside of themselves and fear relying on anything whatsoever, even their own coping mechanisms and personal beliefs?
Are there attachment types who don't use disappointment as a reaction, but as a reflex? Who use finding disappointment in everything and everyone as a shield? To look for what's unsatisfying or upsetting because they find comfort in seeing things as being perfectly imperfect and they believe that longing and suffering are essential? Maybe even using constant thoughts of certain loss, death, and destruction in an attempt to cope with feelings of meaningless detachment.
Would a focus on self-determination, will, and intentionality in everything you do align with a 9 core? Instead of overidentifying with your traits and interests and using them to create security in your sense of self, you seek to destroy and admonish traits and interests as soon as you come to find them in yourself in an attempt to separate yourself from a feeling of mundane weakness or lack of specific vices.
As though if you're not intentionally choosing a certain struggle or trait, it does not deserve to exist inside of you and ought to be expelled. Feeling shame for that thing existing in the first place without your consent.
Posted Apr 8, 2025, 9:20 PM UTC