The Exchange

As we get older, we seemingly get more afraid and more singular. Our points of view get more narrow. We lose our ability to say YES and a knee-jerk NO becomes more of our “Go-To”.
 Many things can accelerate the process: financial hardship, an ill-timed health crisis, or cultural and global threats. There is an aggregated bias that embraces this psychological course of entropy.
The physical finiteness of the human experience is absolute – we are all on our way out, and all our actions are some sort of intervention in staving off the inevitable. However, your emotional and psychological expression can expand and grow, it does not have to follow suit with your physical limitations. We have all heard how one’s mental state is a major contributing factor to their physical well-being.
I have always tried to stay current, stay rebellious, and go counter to this collective vortex. The world keeps pulling on you to succumb. Sometimes it looks like you’re fighting fabricated foes, the voices in your head. Sanity might be the full expression of your eccentricities and emotions rather than you have been reduced to one note and a low-grade hum.
From the time I was little, I have always been told that I was a lot to deal with, but then again, I have always had a lot to deal with, so the exchange seems right.