“Why can’t we shorten the length we’re cooped in cages and stretch the day like dough? Where hands remember the feeling of grass’ freedom and the exhale of an open sky?” - I LOVE this. I was just thinking this morning about how tired I am if the hustle, or perpetually trying to grind myself to the bone. I want slow mornings of boredom where I have time to think about writing and art without worrying about how paying bills and checking off everything that needs to get done.
AMEN!!! All of this. I think hustle culture, convenience culture and social media has made unintentional addicts of us all (well, unintentional on our part; absolutely intentional on theirs). It’ll be a slow process to deconstruct that mindset but I think the world we’re trying to create is entirely possible. I hold on to that in the moments I feel despair creeping in.
“Why can’t we shorten the length we’re cooped in cages and stretch the day like dough? Where hands remember the feeling of grass’ freedom and the exhale of an open sky?” - I LOVE this. I was just thinking this morning about how tired I am if the hustle, or perpetually trying to grind myself to the bone. I want slow mornings of boredom where I have time to think about writing and art without worrying about how paying bills and checking off everything that needs to get done.
AMEN!!! All of this. I think hustle culture, convenience culture and social media has made unintentional addicts of us all (well, unintentional on our part; absolutely intentional on theirs). It’ll be a slow process to deconstruct that mindset but I think the world we’re trying to create is entirely possible. I hold on to that in the moments I feel despair creeping in.