I am not constitutionally suited to being sick in about a thousand different ways. The inside of my head is a space that I already spend too much time in, and when I can’t up and do the things I want to up and do, the trouble is compounded.
Did you know that eventually even your imaginary friends will tell you to go away? At least, mine will- and straight up refuse to talk. How rude, am I right? And how is a nap a guilty pleasure when it’s not really by choice, but more the body saying (in best Cliche/or pick your favorite drag queen voice)- Oh nuh uh honey, you’s gonna be layin your ass down right now, you hear?
You know, maybe I should be concerned that that’s the voice that resonates when I think about my body talking to me. But not today. Today I’m all up in the meaning of life.
Go big or go home, yall.
Everything Everywhere All at Once gave us the message that nothing matters, and that’s been banging around in my brainpan. It’s wonderfully right and wonderfully wrong at the same time… and I think that’s what the Daniels intended. Me, this matter of sinew, breath, and bone.. it’s got an expiration date. We don’t like to think about that, but that doesn’t make it not true. Me, the grubby little essence of mischief, joy, wonder, and chaos, of memories of love, fear, grace, and kindness… well, I don’t think that part ever really ends, it just finds the next evolution somewhere else.
But what stays here, that’s important. I think it’s what unifies us as people when everything else fails. We all want to be thought of, remembered, matter to someone… whether through the work of our hands, the passion of our hearts, the moments of pure connection with another soul. We want to be remembered, and our stories to be known, our songs to be sung.
Really stop and think about that for a minute. Think about how it cuts through what does and doesn’t matter. How it simplifies the important from the trivial, focuses the mind. How would your life be different if you put more importance on the acts that drove that spark and less on the things that.. just don’t matter? If you break down your life to those basic building blocks- moving your story forward and eschewing elements that stop others from realizing their own stories… wow, what a world we could have.
Alright, shutting up and going back to napping now. I just wanted to share that. Oh, and Jared Halley cause he’s freakin amazing.
Curiouser and Curiouser 