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    Well, I'll go ahead and post this here after all:

    If someone is dying so no longer concerned about their own sp, they might focus on getting things in order for their family members. They'd make arrangements, make sure funeral costs were covered ahead of time, set their family up well financially. Their sp would then be focused not on their own survival, but the survival and well-being of their relatives. The survival of their genes and such. Still sp, just redirected.

    If someone was isolated and couldn't engage in their social instinct, they might write in a journal as though it was to a friend, or write letters in hopes someday they'd get them to their friends, talk to animals and take care of them, perhaps even create an imaginary friend. Still so, just redirected.

    So, sexual energy too can be redirected. It's still lust, but could be in regards to ideas, wanting to gobble up every little piece of information of the ideas you're deeply drawn to, immersing yourself in the seeking, or problems so engaging you get excited just considering them and that you could spend years sorting them out and trying to solve them without growing tired of it. Or activities that you want to spend every waking moment engaged in, perfecting. That same drive is redirected into other areas then. If you direct it towards your friends there will be strong components of that hunger there, wanting to pull them in closer and closer wanting to know every crevice of their heart and mind in a way that nobody else could and selfishly guarding that from anyone else. Lust is the underlying pull in sx, a sense of "I want all of this person/idea/activity" which is why it's called sx.

    Relationships though would be social, how to relate, finding your tribe, your people, trust and support.

    And this is why it's easy to see how ALL of the instincts are important and valuable, all of them are a part of every person's life, with positive aspects of every one of them. The first instinct is what you find most important and focus on the most, and it feels like a matter of life and death if you don't get it, so that's why it gets out of whack the easiest. There's a feeling of "if I let go of this need, I'll die" either literally in the case of sp, indirectly in the case of so, and metaphorically in the case of sx. /end my 2c
    Last edited by squark; 01-18-2019 at 02:16 PM.

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