Member-only story
Modern living
Overwhelmed? This is How You Get Back From the Brink
Remember what’s real — then touch it
‘We’re going to stretch the eyeballs and blow away the cobwebs,’ my mother said on a twice-weekly basis during my childhood.
She was explaining why we were going for a walk in the rain, or a bike ride when it was chilly out. I practically grew up in the outdoors, especially compared to children these days.
I would haul on my raincoat in a sulk as my sister patiently waited, already zipped and booted, ever ready for the elements. I was a fair weather child and only the most perfect conditions could make me excited to go outside.
But I loved being outside, it was the transition I didn’t like. And my mother knew this, which is why her follow up phrase would always be, ‘you’ll enjoy it once you get there.’
Two feet from the edge
I don’t know about you, but I’ve often felt that I’m living just two feet from the edge. Y’know, on the brink of overwhelm.
Our lives are so hectic that even in our downtime we’re online. The barrage of information, of news, of pithy clickbait, of political catastrophe — it’s relentless.
