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Sometimes we collapse immediately into sleep from TikTok. Those feels like the days our body got what it wanted. A nothingness. It’s the desire to not exist. Not to be happy—that is different. Merely to not exist. https://t.co/FSb2c3YNmD
The happiness that can only be found when awareness is all but collapsed to the moment, to the joke in front of us. From within that limited perspective can there be a fullness of happiness, a release of worry, much like the child’s. https://t.co/TkLBYRV8at
That nothingness creates the little experience of arising again, in the little moment, of the joke or the post, there is an ease again, a good-naturedness. A fragile one for it might collapse again should awareness expand, but sometimes it is enough, to allow us to rest.
To be well-adjusted is to feel a local sense of agency that is sufficient and appropriate for the situation. When the body bombards with its needs, and the mind with its shoulds, it can feel pointless; a system out of whack. https://t.co/N5qKnDIEkf
pessimists be like boo hoo I'm scared of the future after plugging myself into depressing news 24 hours a day waaaah I'm a giant baby who amputated my own sense of local agency for some reason why did capitalism do this nooooooo ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
It is not that we cannot tolerate great suffering; it is how much we can tolerate is dependent on the sense of agency and meaning we feel. To dissolve into emptiness when nothing feels worth doing, or all feels overwhelming, allows a more useful sense of agency to arrive. https://t.co/49y8Vct3ED