Existential Weather Report #2 : ACCOMPLISHMENTS

none bigger than existence

hear the birds, feel the breeze, taste the food, breathe. existence itself is the biggest accomplishment, everything else is just spending time, and it is expensive.

we have pumps in our chest that run for 80+ years with no breaks, a trillion cells working tirelessly in perfect harmony, an operating system beyond anything that technology could ever replicate (but were stupid enough to try) and look how we spend our time, look at the shit we endure because how other people decide to spend their time, look how these people with “power” spend our time. look how children starve while billionaire presidents focus time and energy on forcing professional sports team to revert back to it’s former more racist name while you absorb both realities spliced in with the occasional meme from the comfort of your couch. look at it. you don’t have to do anything about it, but look at it. all of it. the cells and the cells.

maybe the biggest problem with humanity is memory loss. we forget the above 1000 times a day and reduce life to seeking the perfect box and label for something eternal and unknowable. pursuit of WHAT? you mean further complicating the truly mundane, yet beautiful reality of human beings? that we are here just to experience? that’s it. hear the birds, feel the breeze, taste the food, breathe. sorry, but that’s it, that is the point.

“cost of living” - how did that phrase get normalized? pretty strange for a planet where matter can not be created nor destroyed. pretty ironic for a place that naturally provides us with all we need. next up “cost of dying” - a tollbooth on your way out. no leaving the material world without settling your imaginary debts. they’ll even start selling ez-pass for the afterlife. don’t laugh. people buy cryptocurrency, NFT’s and invest in imaginary places and don’t even notice the ground on which they walk.

what’s funniest is - all of this stuff, this really deeply almost scarily simple stuff, regardless of how true, appears unrealistic because we have cultivated a world and society so far from nature that the concept of nature sounds like a woo-woo impossible fantasy. and it is. we are beyond the point of return. the world is too complex and too adapted to certain things that reverting backwards to our natural state would feel more destructive than constructive. we would need a full reset, an apocalypse OR a rewind button all the way back to the beginning while somehow maintaining the knowledge of now. no one wants that. I don’t want that. but it is something to think about, all of this is below this mass we have created. just because it’s hard to see, doesn’t mean it’s not there.

we get glimpses. those moments of panic or joy where you quickly remember the point. we entered a global pandemic just 5 years ago. we had an opportunity. we had a collective universal trauma. the machinery stopped. the Venice canals repopulated. the pollution cleared. we surrendered. we cooked. we rested. we collected universal basic income. existence itself reclaimed the spotlight, as we all set down our roles and identities. for a while there everyone was just a human being and you were a fool to try and be anything else.

some didn’t get the message at all and (mostly) everyone that did already forgot. the rich got richer, the poor got poorer, the greed got greeder and the evil got worse. and here we are. back on the spiral. but always with an individual choice. we can choose the world we live in.

you don’t need to sell everything and escape to a Himalayan mountaintop to find the answer. you don’t need to change a single thing. you can work a job you hate and spend the rest of your time watching “too hot to handle”.

just hear the birds, feel the breeze, taste the food, breathe. love hard. feel deeply. you are a great success. a god, basically.

I finally threw myself out the last time I moved^^^^

for reference (and a song to expand on this idea of becoming nothing):