Sticky Overwhelm

Overwhelm is fact of life.

Quickly after the architecture of contemporary life is perceived it expands into a fizzing set of constantly connecting and moving matters, an atomic mushroom cloud connecting and infecting everything.

When you try to extract yourself. Come up for air. Come out of your entangled project. Which you have to reluctantly do at some point. You will know the air you breathe is also connected. Full of material and matter. Pollen from farmed plants. Fragments of car tires. Nano-plastics. 

You are connected to this matter by breath. In breathing you imbibe the legacy of all consumption.

If you try to tease that out and think about it, that dismantling will begin to hurt. This stuff is your life. It is you and if you make it a problem, you become a problem too. 

So how do you cope with that?

You contaminate as you are contaminated.
We are all co-contaminees!

And there is a point at which you have to become reconciled with sharing an existence with this stuff.

The reason for making this post is to help myself around this constant problem because the constancy gets a bit too much to handle. And I think I am not the only one who feels this.

Practicing resilience in these times of fast ecological change means there are times when you have to dip in and look at it. Then there are others when you have to let it go and back the hell away. Let your senses take over and just be for a while.

Also, because some of these fizzing connections are yours and yours alone to tug at there's no need to let everyone else become involved all the time.

And also, please don't forget to notice that much of that fizzing connectivity is life being pretty wonderful.