
You May Be Feeling
Short essays exploring how you may be feeling these days.
Not so much what to do about those feelings.
But hopefully how to avoid the second arrow of judging them.
Season 2: The Mothering (Rational Tantrums)
Episodes released every Sunday (well, 3 out of 4).
You May Be Feeling
Ep. 7 It's All Filler Now
There’s a lot to be said about being able to feel that something is done. Finished. Over. Last call. Go home.
In Oliver Burkeman’s newsletter “The Imperfectionist,” he recently touted the importance of being able to call it a day. There’s real comfort in knowing your day is done; and the fact that feelings of finitude seem so elusive to us now, doesn’t mean we need them any less.
In the absence of imposed endings, I must explain to myself why I’m choosing to stop. And as a friend of mine liked to quote Harry Dean Stanton saying in Fire Walk With Me well, that’s “just like… more shit I gotta do now”