Has the humanity drained out of humans? For a lot of people, yes. But the thing that people avoid within you is the very thing they avoid within themselves. I FEEL everything so huge! I feel it all through my body. That’s really too much for some people because they’re completely disconnected from their feelings. And they don’t realize they are because they still experience emotion, but they’re largely desensitized to the human condition. If their response after a bad day is to pour a drink, you will never feel seen, heard or supported by that person. That is a fact!

Being checked into being human can be quite painful. That’s why domestic abuse skyrocketed during covid. Suicide rates went up. Alcohol and drug usage rose. It was too fucking painful to just be in their lives, their actual day to day, sitting with themselves and their thought— lives. And being with their significant others or children. It was too much because they’d been running from the reality of it for too long. They over worked. Or checked out. Hit the gym. Their schedules were the hallmark of busy distraction from their realities, and it all came to a screeching halt. It turned into panic central for a lot of people. It crippled the mental health of many and left a lot of us with a very odd brand of PTSD and forms of social anxiety and suspicion.

Can we bring human experience back into being human? Can we see one another as living beings, instead of a headline? Can we feel one another’s pain and understand that it is real and valid or are we doomed to decline as a collective? Can we do this?

When we live in a world where no one wants to be close and yet we are One, isn’t this a house divided against itself? In a world where we see sides and division, in a world where it’s easier to blame than be personally accountable… are we totally fucked?

Until we’re ready to take the chance, be brave, be empathetic and compassionate we have no hope. Not until we see one another as living breathing beings, not just some faceless schmuck on the internet. Until then, this world is painful… I know. But we can’t heal until we allow ourselves to feel it so we can let the pain go.

My prayer is that you don’t feel the weight of the world on your shoulders alone tonight like I do most days. I hope that you have people who check in on you and care for you deeply. I hope that you have hope and things that make you smile and laugh every single day. I hope that you know that you are loved. I hope that you are brave and allow yourself to feel, to let others in.

I pray that you find the words to say the things that you’ve been afraid to say. And I hope that the people you share it with are kind and compassionate. I wish you all the good things in life. I wish you love and compassion. I pray you have the wherewithal to be present in your life so that you can feel your life and your people. I pray that you always know peace, no matter what is going on in the world. And so it is.

Blessings xx