"meat suits"... so good...
Incidentally, in my favorite movie, 5th Element, at some point the protagonist, played by Bruce Willis, responds to a question with, "I am a meat Popsicle".
@MCcuddles2 ~ "...It's hard to let go of these ideas."
And how!!
I think it's so important to examine our thought traps and the cyclical behavior that isn't serving our best interests.
Whatever the traumas (post, historical, familial, environmental, etc.) we as a species are amazing at rapid adaptation and prolonged survival skills. The problem is the letting go of them once the threat(s) have past, or to set them aside long enough to recognize there may be another way/choice.
Essentially, if we don't first recognize the traps we allow ourselves to fall into, how could we expect to effectively avoid them by choosing an alternative next time? As there will always be a next time... It's a small world and even the best of mental maps can't keep up with all the construction and change.
We really are a never ending work in progress... 🗺⚠️👷♂️🏗👷♀️🚧
@DeadGirlWalking ~ I fricken love everything about that post of yours!! A most satisfying keyboard-drop to be witness to!! 👏👏👏🥰
Thanks @quixotic_life ☺️
@Gallowglass if you break it down, that's all we are. Miles of atoms, scrunched up into a meat suit and powered by electricity. The atoms we are made from have witnessed cosmic explosions. We tasted oblivion before we learned our own names. We are boundless.
And yet, we create, we explore, we invent, we nurture, we learn, we discover, we live, we breathe, we love.
We shouldn't exist. Something this complex shouldn't logically exist, but here we are. We're tiny little creatures on this huge rock, hurtling through space and time, trying to make sense of it all in our own way. We drink fermented fruit juices because they make us feel giddy, when we're happy or sad little raindrops fall from our eyes. We show we care about people by carefully squeezing them with our upper limbs, and sometimes our talking holes touch their faces if we really like them. We have millions of sounds hidden inside us, we can create symphonies and arias with our mouths, we can fashion emotions from sound.
We are magnificent, magical, beautiful little creatures, and every one of us has something to offer the spinning rock we share, beyond our electric meat suit. We can all do something special, even if it's small. You can make perfect pasta every time? Amazing. You can tell when someone is upset, even when they're hiding it really well? Incredible. Animals trust and like you? Magical. You can paint your nails like a pro? That's art. You sound good when you sing in the shower? Art. You're good with words? Art. You are an incredible miracle. The fact that you even exist is billions to one. Literally billions to one. The fact that those two cells, out of all of the billions of chances and combinations managed to create you is phenomenal.
And yet there are still people whose default setting is to reduce everyone around them to a set of genitals.
@DeadGirlWalking That is heartbreakingly eloquent! You are a beautiful human being!
@quixotic_life I love the self-care stuff, thank you. I've been focusing on that this year and finally got my first (and second) pro massage ever and have done salt water floats a few times. Taking care of our own physical and mental health is so important.
@DeadGirlWalking I second the comment that everything you said was so eloquently written. I just had to say I chuckled at "sometimes our talking holes touch their faces" part a little because it reminded me of the Strange Planet comic. The one I posted is nonplatonic, but just to show an example of it. ☺️
I think another big part of this is, realizing and accepting, that everyone has different senses; taste, sight, touch, smell. Not everything that is good for some people will be good for others. And nothing has to be loved by everyone. It's ok that some people dislike onions (but certain family members keep acting surprised and annoyed when I express this, I don't get it).
Part of loving yourself is understanding that not everyone will love you as well, and that's ok.
Why get upset at someone if their disgusted by your looks or smell, that's on them, and then you just don't interact with them if they can't handle it. Getting upset or annoyed or bothered by it just increases your own stress, no reason to add to it. Now if you want their approval or company, and it's something that's easily changeable (like simply just showering or brushing teeth), then go for it, adapt. (Note: not saying 'improve', as in you're not making yourself better, in a general sense [as if you were worse before], but just changing for a situation/environment)
@entwine ~ I think part of what comes with that though is how one goes about expressing their preferences and knowing that 'free speech' doesn't mean free of consequence. I mean people can not like something or someone and still be decent about it right?
I guess I just don't see there being any benefit to causing a scene by flipping the table and venting at grandma about how onions suck, or going to a salad bar with anti-onion signage, trying to get the vendor to have separation of all the veggies as well as clear labels lest your eyes water at the mere sight and knowledge of their existence.
IDK ~ Just seems a bit extreme, but if someone decides to do something like that, then they may have some unsavory consequences coming their way too... But I agree ~ To each there own...
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