Never write a blog post when you're depressed.
Never forget to eat and then forget that you forgot only to have an existential crisis fueled by literal, unacknowledged hunger. Never sleep too little and assess your accomplishments in the same day. To sum up, never forget that your soul is 50% physiology.
Instead of trying to write anything meaningful and worthwhile in the moments when you feel the opposite, sit out in the sun with your eyes closed. Watch the black turn red against the light, and feel your eyelids warm under the radiated heat of a fusing star. And ponder that the atoms of your eyelids came to being in the furnace of a similar star. You are the remnants of a star under the heat of a star. As Carl Sagan said, you "are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
Perspective.
Food.
Sleep.
If you're still having a rough time after you've gotten more of all three, then let's explore it.
Amanda, thanks for pretending I was writing this one to you,
Steph
I'll just leave this here:
Never forget to eat and then forget that you forgot only to have an existential crisis fueled by literal, unacknowledged hunger. Never sleep too little and assess your accomplishments in the same day. To sum up, never forget that your soul is 50% physiology.
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| via Indigo Skies Photography |
Instead of trying to write anything meaningful and worthwhile in the moments when you feel the opposite, sit out in the sun with your eyes closed. Watch the black turn red against the light, and feel your eyelids warm under the radiated heat of a fusing star. And ponder that the atoms of your eyelids came to being in the furnace of a similar star. You are the remnants of a star under the heat of a star. As Carl Sagan said, you "are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
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| Venus as a teeny tiny dot against the sun via Allen Gathman |
Perspective.
Food.
Sleep.
If you're still having a rough time after you've gotten more of all three, then let's explore it.
Amanda, thanks for pretending I was writing this one to you,
Steph
sun hug: n. a meditative moment in the sunlight. It's like yoga without the stretchy pants.
I'll just leave this here:
Thank you for this.
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