Raindom Thoughts

What is it costing us ? To keep standing guard there. And when we look at everything around us that only keeps running because we stay small. Our job. Our family’s expectations. A whole economy built on us never asking for enough. Where is the one door in that structure that was never actually locked ?

“Something is in the room. You have felt it before you had language for it. It is old. It is everywhere. And if you get still enough to really smell it, it is putrid. It is the smell of something that was once alive and human being slowly rotted from the inside out. We call it hierarchy. But that word is almost too clean for what it actually is. What it actually is, is a wound.”

We can do better than this. I really believe that. Not because I’m naive… but because I’ve seen it. I’ve sat with people in their most broken moments and watched them choose something different. Watched them decide that the cycle stops here. It can stop here.

There is a moment that lives in almost every relationship. Sometimes it arrives quietly, sometimes it arrives like a door slamming in the middle of the night, when the heart makes a decision. Not a conscious one. Not a decision you sat down and reasoned through. But a decision nonetheless, made somewhere below thought, in the ancient and intelligent part of you that has always been more concerned with your survival than your happiness. The decision is this: not again. And jus