Winter ended too fast. Maybe the world is churning out not just waves but tsunamis of news, leaving no time to glance out the window. Or maybe the real storm is inside us, where all our attention and energy are consumed by change.
Both are true—because the micro and macro worlds are inseparably linked.
Years ago, I was struck by an idea from philosopher and psychotherapist Eugene Gendlin: “Interaction is first”
He argued that looking at lungs and air separately is meaningless. They exist only as part of a process—through their interaction.
The same applies to everything, including the world and your own identity.
You can see it when someone feels sick, stuck, or drained. One extreme is isolation, which involves shutting down like a device unplugged from the wall. The interaction stops.
The other extreme is a short circuit, when the plug melts into the socket, fusing into chaos. That’s when a person loses himself and dissolves into a crowd, an ideology, or an archetype.
So what’s the answer? Focus on the process—not the plug or the socket.
The goal is to co-create with the world without overheating the system. You need to know when to recharge your battery and when it’s time to wake from hibernation.
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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