{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 120/1910-05-16/p013","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Suppose that a young man in his nineteenth year, who by some accident is obliged to give up a profession which until then had seemed to be marked out for him, and who up to that time had pursued a course of study to prepare him for that profession, through some misfortune to his parents was compelled to give up this profession and, at the age of eighteen, to become a business man. An impartial observer of such an occurrence in life, like the student in physics observing the impact of the elastic balls will probably find that the business experiences into which the young man has been driven will at first have a stimulating effect upon him, so that he will carry out his duties, learn something from them, and perhaps even attain special excellence in his work. But after some time one can also observe another condition entering in, a certain boredom or discontent. This discontent will not be manifested immediately. If the change of calling took place in the youth's nineteenth year, probably the next few years would pass quietly, though about his twenty-fourth year it would become evident that something apparently inexplicable had taken root in his soul. Looking more closely into the matter we are likely to find, if the case is not complicated, that the explanation of the boredom arising five years after the change of calling must be sought for in his thirteenth or fourteenth year; for the causes of such a phenomenon are generally to be sought for at about the same period of time before the change of calling as the occurrence we have been describing took place afterwards. The man in question when he was a school-boy of thirteen, five years before the change of vocation, might have experienced something in his soul which gave him a feeling of inner happiness. Supposing that no change of profession had taken place, then that to which the youth had accustomed himself in his thirteenth year would have shown itself in later life and would have borne fruit. Then, however, came the change which at first interested the young man and so possessed his soul that he repressed, as it were, what had before occupied it; but though repressed for a certain time, it would on that account gain a peculiar strength. This may be compared with the squeezing of an india-rubber ball which we can compress to a certain point where it resists, and if it were allowed to spring back it would do so in proportion to the force with which we have compressed it. Such experiences as we have just indicated, which the young man went through in his thirteenth year, and which grew stronger until the change of profession, might also in a certain sense be driven into the background. But after a time a certain resistance arises in the soul and one can then see how this resistance becomes strong enough to produce an effect. Because the soul lacks what it would have had if the change of profession had not taken place, that which had been repressed now begins to assert itself, appearing as boredom and discontent with its surroundings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"1. The Nature and Significance of Karma in the Personal and Individual; and in Humanity, the Earth and the Universe","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-05-16","location":null,"word_count":533,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/120/1910-05-16/p013","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Manifestations of Karma","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA120/English/RSP1984/19100516p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. No translator is established for this lecture: nothing at the level of the lecture names one. Do not attribute this English to a translator, and do not borrow a credit from another lecture of the volume. 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Wer solche Fälle unbefangen im Leben beobachtet — mit einem solchen Blick, wie man in der Physik die Erscheinung des Stoßes elastischer Kugeln betrachtet -, der wird dann zum Beispiel finden, daß die Erlebnisse des Kaufmannsberufes, in den der junge Mensch hineingetrieben worden ist, zunächst anregend wirken, daß er darin seine Pflichten ausführt, etwas lernt, vielleicht auch etwas ganz Tüchtiges wird. Aber man kann auch beobachten, daß nach einiger Zeit etwas ganz anderes auch eintritt: ein gewisser Überdruß, eine gewisse Unzufriedenheit. Nicht gleich wird eine solche Unzufriedenheit eintreten. Wenn mit achtzehn Jahren sich der Berüfswechsel vollzogen hat, werden vielleicht die nächsten Jahre ruhig vorübergehen. Aber vielleicht um das dreiundzwanzigste Jahr herum wird es deutlich werden, daß sich etwas in der Seele festsetzt, was sich wie etwas Unerklärliches zeigt. Wenn man dann weiter nachforscht, kann man häufig bemerken, wenn der Fall klarliegt, daß der Überdruß fünf Jahre nach dem Berufswechsel seine Erklärung findet durch das dreizehnte oder vierzehnte Jahr. Denn die Ursachen für eine solche Erscheinung werden wir sehr häufig zu suchen haben ungefähr eine ebensolche Zeitspanne vor dem Berufswechsel, wie nach demselben ein Ereignis eingetreten ist, wie wir es eben beschrieben haben. Da kann der betreffende Mensch in seinem dreizehnten Jahre während seiner Lernzeit - also fünf Jahre vor seinem Berufswechsel — etwas in seine Gefühlswelt aufgenommen haben, was ihm eine gewisse innere Beseligung gewährte. Nehmen wir an, der Berufswechsel wäre nicht eingetreten; dann würde das, woran sich der junge Mensch im dreizehnten Jahre gewöhnt hatte, im späteren Leben sich ausgelebt und diese oder jene Frucht getragen haben. Nun kam aber der Berufswechsel, der zunächst den jungen Menschen interessiert hat, der seine Seele eingenommen hat. Was dadurch in sein Seelenleben gekommen ist, das hat zurückgedrängt, was früher darinnen war. Eine gewisse Zeit hindurch kann das zurückgedrängt werden, aber indem es zurückgedrängt wird, gewinnt es gerade im Inneren eine besondere Kraft; da sammelt es sozusagen Spannkraft im Inneren an. Da ist es ähnlich, wie wenn wir einen elastischen Ball zusammendrücken: Wir können ihn bis zu einer gewissen Grenze drücken, dann leistet er Widerstand; und wenn er zum Zurückschnellen veranlaßt wird, wird er mit einer um so größeren Kraft zurückschnellen, je mehr wir ihn vorher zusammengedrückt haben. Solche Erlebnisse, wie die eben angedeuteten, die ein junger Mensch aufgenommen hat im dreizehnten Jahre seines Lebens und welche sich dann bis zum Berufswechsel befestigt haben, können auch in gewisser Weise zurückgedrängt werden; dann aber macht sich nach einiger Zeit ein Widerstand in der Seele geltend. Und dann kann man sehen, wie dieser Widerstand stark genug geworden ist, um sich nun in seiner Wirkung zu zeigen. Weil der Seele das fehlt, was sie sonst haben würde, wenn der Berufswechsel nicht gekommen wäre, macht sich das Zurückgedrängte geltend und kommt jetzt so zum Vorschein, daß Unbefriedigung, Überdruß an dem, was die Umgebung bietet, eintritt.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":545,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/120/1910-05-16/p015"}],"english":["GA 120/1910-05-16/p013"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":545,"en_words":533,"ratio":0.98,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.01,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8705,"original_word_count":8647,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"not_established","translator":null,"identified_edition":"RSP1984","book_title":"Manifestations of Karma","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA120/English/RSP1984/19100516p01.html","evidence":null,"reason":"source_says_translator_unknown","note":"The source page itself says the translator is unknown. 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