It is late Sunday evening and I feel happy.
This deep ache and need for connection and belonging has been slacked some this weekend.
Many places now I’m hearing about community, how it’s hard and necessary to have but no one anymore seems to know how to attain it.
Places I heard this week on this topic were a Rohr podcast episode, conversations w/ my brilliant friend ME who is a therapist, a new employee at work wondering how we’ve put together this great company, and on the list goes. We need it but don’t know how to get it.
Repeat: We need this thing that’s elemental for survival and we don’t know how to get it or achieve it.
ME said we either distract or numb out as we don’t know how to handle pain. We don’t know how to be human. We as the humans do not understand the basics of how to be a human being. It’s like we’re ducks that don’t know how to swim or choose not to, like, I’m going to branch out.
Jay and I had good talks. I went to the beach and friend joined me. Turns out, she also have loved going to the beach there. So cool. Went to an amazing comedy show. Breakfast w/ my mom-in-law, afternoon w/ a friend and walking around the redesigned downtown park then Alanon and eve with Jay together. Long talk w/ El. All good.
One of the Blue Zones is a sense of purpose. It’s crazy to feel a little of that again, to not feel numb and flat. These are good things.