I’m trying to understand how we’re all suffering of the same thing at the same time…
I went to a vision board workshop (Vision Lounge, hosted by the beautiful creative Shivani) and I peeped something that didn’t shock me at all: our collective desire for freedom and leisure. We want to feel free. We want to feel the space and ability to engage in free thought and exploration. We want slow living, love, and sustainability. We all want abundance.
The following are human rights, but luxuries in the system of capitalism:
- Time to rest (without guilt)
- Financially affording new hobbies
- Moving your body in a way that doesn’t feel like a to do list item or a chore
- Feeding yourself 3 times a day with food made at home, and having time to clean up right after
- Guilt free disconnecting from your online identity, without feeling like a recluse/outsider to society
- Spending time with friends/ family/partner(s) with ease and without complex scheduling or feeling like you’re stealing time away from yourself
I’m trying to understand in what time are any of us simply existing if every hour of the day is assigned to doing something, in the name of capitalism or in the name of pleasing others. If you needed a reminder that you are deserving and entitled to your time, your peace, your comfort, here you go.
Enjoy the Catch from the Chase
In between work, school, gym, socializing, passion projecting with the goal of financial freedom, and existing as a sister/daughter/friend/son/brother/cousin/parent/partner, there needs to be a second where you respectfully ask everything and everyone to shut the f* up so you can hear yourself think. We’re on auto pilot most of the day, and it’s removing us from our lived experience. Honestly, our desire to deliver, achieve, and acquire is unavoidable, but when do you stop and enjoy the catch from the chase?
We think pause means stop. Nah, a pause is a pause. A temporary stillness. Do you know what happens when you don’t plan to pause or slow down? You drop your balls. You isolate. You go on a hiatus because you overstimulated yourself. Then, you retreat from your hobbies, your happiness, and your tribes.
Just You and You
An hour of your day at minimum needs to be yours. Just you and you. No distractions, no commitments, no expectations. Welcome the anxiety and discomfort of being left alone with yourself, and see what comes up. Notice your loudest desires, the ideas that light bulb, the conclusions you make that solve problems you’ve had for longer than you want to admit. We have to turn off auto pilot to change course. We have to sit in the driver seat to lead our lives. I’m just saying, we’re all in the same routines that we hate but refuse the will power to confront the discomfort of truth and change.
“I don’t want to be alone with my thoughts for an hour. I’m nervous of what will come up.”
How is it that we are so scared of spending alone time with the voice we carry in our minds all day? It doesn’t need to be so frightening. Read, draw, doodle, sing, write a poem, idk. The outcome doesn’t need to be good. The point is expression, not performance. Not everything is about our performance.
Collectively, we’re all craving this singular thing that feels impossible. The saddest thing is that it’s also the simplest thing, which is the feeling of flow.
