The delicious thing about slipping back into the texture of real life is that a good connection to lived reality makes you forget there’s an alternate one.
Yet somehow, we feel determined to spend most of our lives in alternative realities chasing the future with a relentless determinism that makes us forget where we are, or as is more common these days, simple escapism.
But what if life got so good that you just forgot all the extras? And I don’t mean so good in the sense that it’s all good in a material sense, but in an emotional one, even for a time being.
Well, that’s exactly what’s been happening for me from this experience with ACTUALLY DOING (not just reading, but participating in) this Outgrowing the Matrix play space.
Monday night I ALMSOT forgot cellphones existed and wouldn’t it be a good idea to capture some of the chaotic magic in my living room as I opted for cereal for dinner while dancing with my 17.5 year old doggie as my husband mixing house music and the other two were trying milk for the first time. I know, quite a scene. As I threw my head back and let out a loud and unconsciously huge belly laugh for no reason, I decided it felt just like peak adulting. As I would define it for me.
Which is literally the whole point of these exercises. The truth is I don’t have clear path where we are going next or any idea ‘what we’re getting out of it’, and truthfully, that makes me so bloody happy.
You might decided to subscribe to access this work (please do, it’d be cool to have you), and you might think it’s dumb, basic, or mildly interesting but ‘not your cup of tea’ — or it might change the way you participate in your own life to the extent that YOU forget to check the next few days because you discovered your own version of peak adulting and were enjoying tf out of that.
Either way, here’s another day for us and I only hope that the deeper we all go with this, the more we start to rub up against the edges of more imperfect realities.
Onward…inward…upward…and the like. Let’s play.
