I meant to write this storyhack yesterday. But I was too tired and instead chose to go to bed super early. I also chose to spend half an hour before bed, taking the time to shower, cleanse my skin and do a body oiling practice with home-made olive oil, infused with Pine needles from my home on the mountain in Colorado.
This is me practicing radical self care.
How often do you find yourself wondering about the new ‘normal’?
What will life look, feel and sound like when this current COVID crisis is over?
Socially what will the world look like after lockdown?
Who will return and what new face will they wear?
And will it happen again?
What then?
So we have jumped off the cliff into potential annihilation (of our way of life and ego identity).
We have crossed the threshold and entered into the forest of our imagination, seeking a new vision of what is possible.
And we are lost.
Well and truly lost.
We feel confusion, despair, doubt.
And this is exactly how it should be.
As human ‘beings’ I believe that we have always sought a higher vision.
Whether this seeking is connected to our aspirations for our personal life, or the search for higher and more evolved forms of collective social purpose, we are naturally ‘questing’ creatures, constantly striving to know more, to be more and to experience more.
In the fast changing and tumultuous times we now find ourselves living in, our human hunger for ‘more’ can be seen for what it truly is – a force that is both enabling and destructive.
Hunger itself is neither bad nor good – it is simply the catalyst for a response to the call of evolution. When aligned with the classical hero’s journey, the traits of human hunger can be seen as either destructive or creative depending on our individual and collective response to them.