Rightward // Stagnance Continuum

The Rightward // Stagnance Continuum is an energy continuum focusing around the idea of progression, meaning, usefulness, and value.

## Rightward

Rightward is an energy that is characterised by

* actively making your own choices
* efficiency, commitment, and motivation
* directness and effectiveness
* instead of blindly making random decisions, moving rightward requires making informed and educated choices; using your intuitive and intellectual judgement to get clear about the purpose you are trying to achieve by making a certain choice or doing a certain task, thinking about the long term consequences of doing or not doing the thing
* making an impact you make on the world, leaving a legacy; the thing that carries on from this cycle to the next cycle, this generation to the next (homestuck second square)
* taking feedback from situations and symbols
* addressing problems (as opposed to neglecting them)

It's called rightward because it's represented by moving to the right in the wave model

## Stagnance

Stagnance is an energy that is characterised by:

* passively letting choices be made for you
* procrastinating
* quick change (if change happens too quickly, you will be an unfamiliar environment, which makes it harder for you to move rightward)
* a feeling of tiredness, dirtiness, and laziness

## Rightward Stagnance

It’s possible to stagnate meaningfully. A prime example of this is experiencing blackspace. Stagnating is not productive when it’s not planned (when it prevents you from making progress on something else that's more important), but when carefully planned and structured, it helps you be more aware of your tendencies. (please elaborate on this)

Common misconception: specific tasks or strategies aren’t inherently rightward or stagnant. Whether or not something moves you rightward is based on how you choose to use it. For example, you could study for a test or attend a class at school, and still not get anything done. Even though these tasks are typically associated with learning, if you don’t make the choice to pay attention to the content, ask questions, and actively apply it to your situation while doing these things, you’re not making use of the tools you are given, and so you don’t learn anything. Conversely, if you spend a lot of time playing video games or watching videos on social media, even though these activities are typically associated with laziness, you can still learn something from them if you make use of the content to actively learn. Although how much you learn depends on how you use these tools, some tools are more suited to helping you do certain things than others. Each tool is designed to serve a specific purpose. Since a school is typically designed to help you learn and a game is typically designed to help you have fun, it's usually more efficient and effective to learn using a school than a game, but that doesn't mean there can't be games that are designed to help you learn. You still have the ability to choose which tools to use or not use, depending on what specific purpose you are working towards and what goals you want to accomplish.

## Unanswered Questions

* is it possible to move leftwards?!??  have you been confusing neutrality with negativity like a doofus?

* weird paradox: if you can be rightward stagnance, then what is the definition of rightward? in other words, how do you know if something is rightward stagnance or just stagnance?