Today I feel shame. It arises from something new today, but

My vision of a better future is simple: we've learned to see how much energy we spend maintaining rather than living. Maintaining our anger. Maintaining our fears. Maintaining our stories about why we can't be happy right now.

We discover we are the ones keeping our emotional states alive through constant effort. Like tightening a fist so long we forgot we were doing it.

We can see the holding mechanism itself.

We catch ourselves ruminating over old grievances to keep anger alive, scanning for threats to maintain anxiety, repeating limiting stories to preserve familiar identities, even grasping at pleasant feelings which paradoxically pushes away natural joy.

In this future, everyone knows - even kids are taught from a small age - that any feeling beyond 90 seconds is a state of our own holding onto (credit to Jill Bolte Taylor).

When everyone knows this, we can have a different kind of inquiry.

We see that emotions aren't lingering on their own. Instead, they're house guests we kept inviting back by setting a place at the table.

#FutureYouLove

There are extra line breaks in this post for some reason. It's either one blig block of text or this. IDK how to remove them.

We discover we are the ones keeping our emotional states alive through constant effort. Like tightening a fist so long we forgot we were doing it.

We can see the holding mechanism itself.

In this future, everyone knows - even kids are taught from a small age - that any feeling beyond 90 seconds is a state of our own holding onto (credit to Jill Bolte Taylor).

When everyone knows this, we can have a different kind of inquiry.

We see that emotions aren't lingering on their own. Instead, they're house guests we kept inviting back by setting a place at the table.

#FutureYouLove

There are extra line breaks in this post for some reason. It's either one blig block of text or this. IDK how to remove them.