Indiependence is resistance

I’m heading into 2024 in a very different way than I was heading into 2023, and with that comes a sense of calm yet a committed focus.

Each year teaches me something new. I start thinking I’m wise, I leave it thinking of how much I have to learn. These days I feel it’s more learning about me and what I care for, rather than learning about specific pieces of knowledge.

My current vibe going into 2024 is “resistance”:

Rest is resistance.

Community is resistance.

Indiependence is resistance.

As people striving to create something different, we resist the world as it exists today.

We take action, engage in dream work, imagine, and take the time to create a new reality. This new reality emerges from our indiependent work, our community work, and the time we take to rest.

It appears when we step back, disengage from society's hamster wheel, from work that doesn't truly impact, from creating others' dreams instead of work that truly matters to us.

Indiependence is resistance against all of that.

We are indiependent, crafting our own reality, envisioning a different future, standing up to demand something else.

As humans, individuals, and as a community, we aspire to something amazing, something different, something that isn't serving us right now. We recognize an inner feeling, even if it's hard to articulate or define immediately, that rejects society as it is.

We know we must change. We have one life, and we are determined to make the most of it.

It might take us years to truly understand.

I thought I understood years ago, yet here I stand still perplexed. Still not quite done. Still trying to make the best of every situation. And still figuring out who I am and why others behave the way they do.

Ultimately, I find myself retreating. Caring less about certain things and caring more about what’s important to me.

I switch the news off.

I focus on my projects.

I try to succeed on my terms and surround myself with people that matter.

I am resisting being part of a world that I don’t believe in.

I am resisting being surrounded by the wrong kind of people and those that only care for themselves.

I am resisting talking myself down.

I am resisting doing work that doesn’t matter.

And it is through all this resistance that we create a brave new land.

🥰 What brought me joy this week:

I discovered omg.lol. It is what I can only describe as a modern yet retro way to have a presence online, I’ve been yearning for something like this for a while!

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