Find a place to sit.
You're already here,
Floating on a rock in space,
Surrounded by a civilization that loves to sell you safety.
While quietly leaking poison into the water table.
I know it's a lot.
The news,
The invisible particles,
The feeling that the Big Brother simulation is having a breakdown.
It's enough to make anyone want to check out.
And you're not going to check out.
You're going to sit here and realise.
That you are the only sovereign guardian.
Of your own biological architecture.
And you can wonder as you sit in the dark.
Just how ridiculous it is to be stressed out about things you can't see.
When you haven't even mastered the art of being still.
I wonder if you'll be curious.
As you notice the rhythm of your own breath.
Ignore the panic.
That's just the environment trying to harvest your cortisol.
Don't give it to them.
Just breathe.
Think of your body as a high security vault.
Up until now.
You've been leaving the door wide open.
Letting the toxic mimics of the world wander in and take up residence in your thyroid.
You've been letting radioactive what-ifs take the place of actual nutrients.
Stop it.
You're rowing against the tide of the universe,
Grunting and sweating.
Trying to look like you're doing something important.
But look at the oars.
They aren't even in the water.
You're just performing a scene for an audience that doesn't exist.
It's really pathetic.
This need to be constantly on,
Constantly worried,
Constantly ready.
Let the rowing stop.
The radiation,
It's there.
The world's a mess.
Welcome to the 21st century.
Your body.
Is a brilliant piece of biological defiance.
It knows what to do if you just get out of the way.
Flood the terrain,
Not with fear.
But with excellence.
Saturate your cells with something real.
Chaga mushrooms,
Button mushrooms,
Chlorella,
Spirulina,
Wheatgrass,
Iodine,
The actual stuff.
Not the imposter plastic garbage they sell you in the supermarket aisle.
You aren't detoxing.
You're conducting a hostile takeover of your own body from the nervous system downwards.
Feel the weight of the floor beneath you.
That's the Earth.
It doesn't care about your deadlines or your anxiety.
It's ancient,
It's indifferent.
And it's the only shield you've got.
Use it.
Ground yourself until your nerves stop vibrating like a downed power line.
You're not a victim of the fallout.
You are a biological entity.
Capable of enduring the absurdity of this entire era.
Sooner or later,
Whenever you're done playing the role of the stressed-out passenger.
Guy in the red shorts rowing for the cameras.
You can put the oars down.
Take a deep breath.
A real one.
Exhale the dirty anxiety.
Exhale the performance.
Exhale the need to be part of the catastrophe.
You're back in the room.
Your sovereign.
You're saturated and honestly,
You're the only thing here that actually matters.
Open your eyes.
Stretch.
And try not to let the simulation get you on the way out.
Welcome back.