Connection

Connection.

We all crave it. We all need it.

COVID has been particularly challenging in the way it has left us feeling DISconnected.

But why has it left us feeling so disconnected?

That’s a question so obvious that we never thought to ask it.

Perhaps it’s because the only way we know how to connect in this modern age is externally — through other people and through the world OUT THERE.

Somewhere along the way we lost the capacity to connect INWARDLY with ourselves and with that which is beyond ourselves.

So if you tell us we have to stay inside by ourselves then we will undoubtedly feel completely disconnected because the outside world is the only source of connection we have.

But what if COVID has actually provided one of the greatest opportunities in known history FOR connection?

What if COVID has forced an entire species to stop looking outside for all of their connection and to instead turn inward, as many past civilizations have done, in such a way that we might rediscover a thread of unshakeable connection that’s been right here all along?

What if COVID provided this opportunity but we were so ignorant and externally-focused that we completely missed it?

Would that not be the true tragedy here?

Where do you turn to learn how to live? If you’re like me, you might turn to books. Or mentors. Or podcasts. You might engage in philosophical discourse with friends, family, and colleagues. You might lean into the onslaught of research and studies conducted on the topics of happiness, meaning, and life satisfaction. You might reflect through the practice of journaling. These can all be useful...

Where do you live? To answer that question you might give me a location. Let’s say New York. And though it may be true that you live in New York, you really live in a HOUSE in New York. Let’s say a big house. And though it may be true that you live in a big house in New York, you really live in your HEAD in your big house. You live in between the walls of your head — right there with all your...

The rougher the road, the lighter the grip. I first learned how to ride a motorcycle in Northern Thailand, mostly on bumpy, rocky, winding roads. My natural tendency on many of the bumpy dirt roads was to tighten my grip on the handlebars. The rougher the road, the harder I clenched. Until I realized that by the end of the ride my hands were in such severe pain I couldn’t even open them all the...

The evolution of mankind:
Walk walk walk, hunt, rest rest rest.
Walk walk, farm, rest rest rest.
Walk, farm farm, rest rest.
Sit, farm farm farm, rest rest.
Sit, work, rest rest.
Sit, work work, rest rest.
Sit, work work work, rest.
Sit, coffee coffee coffee, work work work, booze booze booze.

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