"The meaning of being alive is just to be alive.”
Alan Watts — speaker of the unspoken — puts it so simply and so truthfully.
In an era of overcomplication and 37-step programs, we forget. Humans have that tendency to go so myopic and so micro-focused that we miss the entire thing.
It’s Monday (duh because on Mondays, we write!) and that means I get a case of ~the overwhelms~. Where the mental construct of the Monday blues creeps in and I feel like I’m already behind the never-ending rat race of who’s getting more done, producing more content, and showing up more online.
I sit in my chair for 4 hours straight without a snack or moment to shake my legs and then wonder why I feel the ick! For how many Mondays am I going to forget to take a walk BEFORE I sit down to work? Humans can be so intelligent and yet so silly at the same time.
It’s this meme for me. On repeat.
A simple reminder prevents you from becoming the fuzzy man on the left: Breathe. Walk. Put the propaganda machine down. Turn off the TV.
You’re here and now. It’s a human experience after all and there’s no escaping. Eventually, everyone comes out of the ayahuasca journey and returns from visiting the 5D in a celestial body with no arms or legs. Before long, you remember what it is to be human.
To face reality and know that the more you resist it the more IT resists you. To me, a truly spirit-led life is one that embraces the human element, not ignores it. To know that I will feel the ick looking at my inbox and inevitably feel the urge to throw my phone across the room after the 8th TikTok using the same trending sound.
Who I am if I’m not tracking my existence in the form of a reel 4x a week because a coach said I have to if I’m going to hit a $10k month!! How do I consciously create without becoming my own worst nightmare? How do I remain unique while following the same advice that the 458,000 other people are following?
Ok before I keep showing you my impressive ability to spiral — quickly the answer is emerging:
You embrace. You accept cringe. You accept the duality that humanness includes nonsense and that to find balance you must fall off the wagon. I’ve not seen a more healing act than one of accepting the bizarre experience of the homo sapien sapien. That’s right. You’re a fucking species of life on Earth!!!
AND… you are spirit. You are stars. You are the Universe. You are everything and nothing. The void is you and you are void.
But on Monday when you’re answering emails… You’re a human, too. Escaping your humanity is a cat chasing its tail — going in circles and circles and eventually, you catch it! Oh, it was me all along.
Without this body in this lifetime, you’d not be experiencing what spirit has in store for you. I think. To be honest, that’s what I am trying to figure out.
Is it a 50/50 split? Is the body inside the soul? And who TF is in charge here?
So: The meaning of being alive?
I’d say part of it is frustration. Part of it is freedom. Part of it is losing the whole thing in order to come back to it.
Basically what I’m saying is that our culture tries to bypass the very thing that is allowing us to have these profound experiences: being bound to a bag of skin that has bad days and forgets to eat lunch and then becomes grumpy and wonders if it’s another spiritual test.
I’m eating chips while writing this because my intuition told me to and it knows I’ll get distracted if I don’t have a little snacky to keep my human life form satisfied.
I threw on socks to keep my toes warm and drank a glass of water to hydrate the creative flow that runs through my fingers.
So you see, these entities are working as one. My intuition from the soul knows it has a body that needs care. And it’s time for you to remember that, too.
Taking care of your physical entity means taking care of your soul. And when you have case of the Mondays, it’s a time to be extra caring of your human self and do what supports its blossoming.
Part of the path to liberation beyond physical limitations is to accept the limitations and instead see them as liberators as well. The solution is the path itself.
Today’s message was meant to remind you and show you that you are still a cool, spiritual floaty being even when you feel annoyed and frustrated. You’re still doing a good job and this is all part of it.
When we accept and stop fighting, whatever we were resisting loses its power over us. It’s like when you stop forcing your partner to change and allow them to blossom in their own time.
You can be free now. Be HUMAN. Be SPIRIT.
Just be.
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Nice reminder to relax, cover all my human needs and move forward on getting tasks done.