“I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me.” - Albert Einstein
Think about the three scenarios:
- You leave the dinner table to go to the bathroom and there’s a short line.
- You’re lying in bed, about to wind down for the night.
- You’re sitting on the bus next to a row of strangers.
What is everyone doing?
Close your eyes, what do you see?
When I close mine, 95% of people are checking their phone.
These moments between the moments, the folds, are what make up the fabric of our lives. They are the only times you can actually sink your teeth into reality. This is the "emotional slack" your brain needs to process the world. It’s the seed for new ideas and the soil for the good ones to finally break the surface.
But right now, we’re robbing ourselves. We’re trading our intuition for a hit of dopamine, and you can see the ripple effects in the micro and the macro.
Personally, I feel it - cluttered, anxious, unsure, noncommittal, less gut-driven. Looking around, it seems like society feels the same. Our architecture is converging. People are less sure what they want to do in their life, and frankly, are just less happy. We're swimming in static. Our subconscious is being drowned by noise. We don't know what we want because we aren't giving those seeds a chance to sprout.
It’s a shame, and honestly, I think the only way to break free is to refuse to play the game entirely.
- To buy freedom (literally) and lock yourself out of feeds.
- Then “take a day with absolutely no plans or intentions where you spend your time doing what you feel like and aaaaactually noticing what you genuinely want to do without attaching to what you think you should want to do… If you do this enough, you will meet yourself authentically and understand who you actually are when you are not trying to be anyone else.” (thx Isabel)
Maybe then, the noise will stop - and we'll meet ourselves exactly where we are.
- L
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