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RE: Just about done with this shit.
While reading this I thought about how it seems sometimes to me, that there isn't as much room to breathe anymore. It's almost like normal life can now cause mental claustrophobia.
I think in the moment it is not so bad since by default we will stick with what we know as that is the least cognitive load, as the day progresses and our interactions do we kinda dismiss the initial ones with this kneejerk reaction and later when you sit down and process it all then yeah it can be overwhelming. I like to though either make a complete shift without trying to reason it but mostly I slowly shift my current perception with the new info quite naturally. I think we are quite capable of being extremely flexible with it all provided you are not too attached to something without reason.
Nowadays, even when we're living in the moment, it's almost impossible to avoid noticing the turmoil that's going on everywhere on the planet, because every moment it seems there's something else to add to the list of things with a direct effect on us that's "now" being fucked with.
I think the only time that I now have a need to process, is when I've been out driving and ended up lucky enough to barely avoid being killed, when any number of minute differences would mean I/we would've been killed instead. It's the most stressful thing in my life actually, and the only thing that really bothers me enough to feel the need to reflect on the experience.
But reflection is spending time in the past, which I'm blessed to be able to automatically avoid most of the time.