August 22nd, 2025
- this relates to Michael "Valentine" Smith asking me the other day in response to seeing everything here as a learning experience... "why would anybody ever NOT see things that way?" and I commented
- everything IS a learning experience
- but sometimes what you're learning is that life will overwhelm you and you can't handle it and can't learn any greater capacity in contact with the overwhelm
- (or maybe not without shutting down major other systems)
- there's a thing that happens when kids are playing where someone says "it's not fun anymore"
- and hopefully the scene responds by easing off