I just read an email enumerating all the things going wrong in the world right now.
Raising food and gas prices, housing crashes, travel disruptions.. And that was just the beginning.
I felt it pulling me in: fear, disbelief, confusion, anger.
Then I stopped reading, lifted my head, and looked at the world around me. My world.
It’s a clear, sunny day here in Portugal. I wake up next to my partner in a simple apartment, a four-minute walk from the beach.
I don’t think about rising gas prices, because I don’t have a car.
I don’t think about what our American President is up to, because I don’t watch the news or scroll social media. (Except a bit of Instagram and YouTube, with a feed-full of pole dance and Portuguese language learning videos.)
This is the world I wake up to, a far cry from the one described in the doom-and-gloom email.
I’m not saying there aren’t wars and rising prices, with economic and personal implications for all of us. Clearly there are.
But my reality is created by what I’m thinking. 100%.
So is yours.
Which means that your world isn’t the same as mine. And it isn’t the same as anyone else’s, either.
Here this weekend, the town is buzzing, gearing up for a triathlon and tourists, now that spring and beach weather is (finally!) here.
Tomorrow I’m hosting a DragonHeart Pod at a volunteer-run arts and community space for the LGBTQ+ community.
But reading that email reminded me of something:
You’re living in a world, too, and I don’t actually know what that looks like right now.
So tell me:
What’s on your mind right now?
Not what you think you should say, but what’s actually there. A word, a phrase, a sentence.
Comment below and let me see your world for a moment.
A few days ago, a beautiful soul described theirs to me.
“Right now, I’m in a dark, gloomy world, stuck on the same route, with no destination. I’ve been on it my whole life.”
They paused, tears in their eyes..
“ I know how to deal with that gloomy world. I’ve practiced it my whole life. The question is…am I willing to see something else?”
That’s the edge, isn’t it?
Not whether a more beautiful world exists, but whether we’re willing to look.
Yours in love and play,
Steph 🐲❤️🔥
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