Sticky Overwhelm

Overwhelm is fact of life.

Quickly, after the perception of the forensic architecture of contemporary life begins, a concept forms of a fizzing set of constantly moving matters expanding out like an atomic mushroom cloud connecting and infecting all other matters, somehow, somewhen, with the same erupting fizziness. 

So when you try to extract yourself. Come out of your entangled project. Come up for air. Which you have to do. You will know the air you breathe is also connected and full of the material and matter which you are also otherwise connected to in many different ways. 

Yet you have decided to try and tease that out and think about it. And this dismantling will begin to hurt. This stuff is your life. Is life itself. And if you make it a constant problem, you become the problem too. So, how do you cope with that? Well, there is a point at which you have to let go and be reconciled with the fact that your existence shares space with this stuff.

My point is that it doesn't have to be a constant problem. Practicing resilience in these times of fast ecological change means there are times when it is possible to dip in and look at it, and others when you have to let it go. Back away, let yourself become reconciled. Also, some of these fizzing connections are yours, and yours alone to tug at. And still, much of fizzing life is pretty wonderful and will remain so.