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. Like an atomic mushroom cloud everything connects and infects everything else.

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. It's full of material and matter; pollen from farmed plants, tiny fragments of car tyres and nano-plastic. 

You are connected to this matter in your breath and from the legacy of your consumption.

You might have decided to try and tease that out and think about it. This dismantling will begin to hurt. This stuff is your life. And if you make it a problem, you become a 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 you have a shared existence with this stuff.

I suppose the reason for making this post is to excuse myself from this constant problem, because its constancy gets a bit too much to handle.

Practicing resilience in these times of fast ecological change means there are times when you have to dip in and look at it, and others when you have to let it go. Back away and let yourself become reconciled, for a while.

Also, some of these fizzing connections are yours, and yours alone to tug at. There's no need to let everyone become involved.

And much of that fizzing connecting life is pretty wonderful and will remain so.