Cast-out.
The story of our separation from our mother, or the return to her, that's the story you get to choose. We did not choose any story to begin with, we were born within it, just like the stars gave us a body, the earth and our parents gave us a story. Trees don't cry for fallen leaves; sadly capitalism profits from keeping us epicurean and projecting stoicism as toxic masculinity. We don't allow ourselves to grow and to be smarter because there is systemic advantage for staying small and stupid.
As we allow ourselves to expand, our curiosity to visit niches of shared wisdom, we learn and learning is making distinctions, curating information; which then requires us to cast-out stories, ways of interpretation and beliefs. It reads as a paradox, but we were casted out of a world of beauty, peace, harmony, plenitude and unconditional love and pushed into this field of war and separation, yet coming back together requires us to cast out the things that casted us out in the first place.
Today's nawal speaks strongly about the dynamics of life on earth, evolution and growth. Not everything is endless reproduction. Life is not just continuous growth. Within the womb webbed feet become distinct toes through apoptosis, cells strategically die to give us definition. Following this principle we must unlearn if we are to learn, we must place and carve out our being, give ourselves definition and location. Nothing will be a worse enemy for you than ambivalence and undecidedness. If it is a mistake, make it, you will only know when you do. And once you do, continue cutting away that which you not desire to be. That is biologically, the definition of being.
Cast-out.
The story of our separation from our mother, or the return to her, that's the story you get to choose. We did not choose any story to begin with, we were born within it, just like the stars gave us a body, the earth and our parents gave us a story. Trees don't cry for fallen leaves; sadly capitalism profits from keeping us epicurean and projecting stoicism as toxic masculinity. We don't allow ourselves to grow and to be smarter because there is systemic advantage for staying small and stupid.
As we allow ourselves to expand, our curiosity to visit niches of shared wisdom, we learn and learning is making distinctions, curating information; which then requires us to cast-out stories, ways of interpretation and beliefs. It reads as a paradox, but we were casted out of a world of beauty, peace, harmony, plenitude and unconditional love and pushed into this field of war and separation, yet coming back together requires us to cast out the things that casted us out in the first place.
Today's nawal speaks strongly about the dynamics of life on earth, evolution and growth. Not everything is endless reproduction. Life is not just continuous growth. Within the womb webbed feet become distinct toes through apoptosis, cells strategically die to give us definition. Following this principle we must unlearn if we are to learn, we must place and carve out our being, give ourselves definition and location. Nothing will be a worse enemy for you than ambivalence and undecidedness. If it is a mistake, make it, you will only know when you do. And once you do, continue cutting away that which you not desire to be. That is biologically, the definition of being.
