My nighttime therapy
The thoughts I came in with
On medication
Drugs help you see your thoughts from a different perspective.
Which is what therapy is.
In the United States an alarmingly increasing number of people take medication that is synthetic, or close to it, to manage their natural thoughts, and too many people are not aware of what that says about our society.
We most likely could have “discovered” the cure for the majority of “diagnosable” mental illnesses that exist right now if we had invested as much in fungi research (e.g. psilocybin) as we have in {{pick your big business}}.
Our therapists are working with suboptimal tools, but we might be too far gone anyways…
On learning
Instead of trying to fit it all into boxes, just let yourself be exposed to it. Completely and openly. Repetitively. Until you can’t anymore. Soak it all in, all of it, as much as you can. Attend to it. Love it.
And then the exam is just like….
Proving how much you love something.
On not procrastinating
That’s going to be a pivotal moment.
I must be prepared when it happens.
Back to learning
It’s exhausting pretending to love something though… (who really loves learning the names of every muscle in the body?)
That’s why, for me, studying takes up so much energy in a short amount of time.
I’m a fast learner, but I require naps on study days in order for the information to soak more.
On Augie barking
It would be really cool if Augie was barking at me just to let me know that I left the back door open and not because he’s a ‘lil shithead who barks for no reason other than he’s a dog… but I love him all the same, even though we’re different species and sometimes I have no idea what he’s trying to communicate.
The thoughts I came out with
- I’m a fast learner
- I love Augie
The thoughts I let go
- EVERYTHING ELSE
Get to know your thoughts. If you never get to know them, they’ll just keep knocking. They won’t ever leave until you open the door and hear them out. Then you decide what leaves and what stays.
