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the ppl who talk about "forest bathing" feel entirely alien to me. like upper class ppl romanticising the slum life, wearing its aesthetic, never truly knowing it. secretly vicious, ready to pounce on me. or perhaps i am the vicious one, judging and resenting them. i don't know https://t.co/1ZQ3ffbvOF
all i know is i feel hollow around them. they speak to an anxiety that worries my soul. that this— fake relationships with nature. tepid middle class cargo cults. nature-branded neuroticism —that’s all there is https://t.co/OxqQtBdPwc https://t.co/KcadWsM9f5
i feel invisible. a loud "FUCK NO". "whatever this is, FUCK NO" https://t.co/McHjsoHMrO
"this is not my stop. do not get off here. keep going" (h/t @not_a_hot_girl) https://t.co/R8eBNaT2N0
people tracked the sun because it was useful, not because it was therapeutic. people know the phase moon because it was pragmatic, it affected their lives i don't want to orient towards making my life a reenactment of of self-improvement project disguised with village vibes
i am against the people to whom knowing where the sun and moon is is accoutrement on their project of self, flair on their burning man jacket, a pin on their fucking village vibes and tenuous felt connection to the universe https://t.co/XxRD34NKDW
i know my people. when i meet them, i don’t feel f***ing insane. https://t.co/U154WHb8kK
i trust their sincerity. i see how their spirituality very pragmatically gears into their life. i see them being more sincere and humble to the people in their life https://t.co/Xf8MtQNLzr
i see a kind of softness, humility, of having known pain i see a kind of fierceness, wildness, and ability to be more-than-default-society-can-handle-ness they seem of the world. when im around them, the messages their bodies are screaming into the world, i enjoy them
in a world of mirage, some corner of my heart senses the dissonance. almost-matches can be worse than no-match, because just besides the gift we wish for most tends to be our shadow https://t.co/4Ps7bgDfcv
as soon as the sun became relevant to my life — when i started using it to tell where north was, while in my convertible driving or walking — i started having a sense for where it was. i could look at the reflections on a tree on a cloudy day and somehow know where the sun was