Therapist appointment earlier today. It's part of my title IX deferment, but I think therapy would be a smart thing for me anyways, y'know. We went over my insane explosive rage recently, mainly catalyzed by my drinking, but y'know, like Chernobyl was ultimately caused by the graphite tips of the uranium rods (amongst a long series of things going wrong) - because graphite accelerates nuclear reactions - there wouldn't be a big boom if there wasn't the uranium there.
…y'know, I hear some of the shit my therapist said in response to what I said made me a bit aware of how people ain't not doing a damn to piece together nonfamiliar verbiage. Y'know, the thing I have to do with all of you all the time because the average person is highly privileged to, as a joke I'll say, you all exist within the central finite curve of culture. You can relate to the people around you, right?
My therapist asked me what things I think about often, first bringing up my mom, and it's like no, you just blind-sided me with thinking about it, so I lost energy in my composure and deflated, which is why I don't think about her directly often. But I think of my dad a lot. Maybe that's why I'm angry so often. But y'know, really, I was kinda censoring myself, cuz what do I say?
“Oh, late at night, in a completely non-sexual way, genuinely because I have already masturbated at this point, but when my mania mind is going crazy, I think about, y'know, the mass wide-scaled terrorism I could enact and what is the best (re: worst) way to torture a child that would leave them most scarred for a very long life, as two small, insignificant examples of things that calm me down in a meditative way.”
Cuz, like, fuck. Back to what I was saying about the graphite and the uranium. Like, ain't none of these fucking problems I have would exist if it wasn't for my father's gross ineptitude. But, it is the child's mind that blames others for present circumstances. I take responsibility for my present circumstances despite the objective causality of what made me this way because this gives me the greatest power to make changes in my life to get to where I want to be.
We went over this concept where I ended up replying with how mindfulness is the most important part of this process because that is what allows you to notice those moments where change can happen; that each moment is a juncture that defines what future junctures we can take. The idea is to notice those times you cross the passage in the labyrinth or come across those moves in a Rubik's Cube that take you to those future moves that solve everything for you.
And as I left, he did a fun thought-reversal technique, where I had said I was happy I abstained from drinking, where on the way out, he flipped it to say “weren't you happy that you had a beer waiting for you, or what was that?” Y'know, he got my executive mind to go over what I said made me happy. But that wasn't actually what made me happy. I do that all the time, abstaining from substances. What happened on the way in, I biked past a man who wasn't flying a sign, was sitting out of the way, in my peripheral, but was very disheveled. God has been presenting these moments where I definitely do see a homeless person in my unconscious mind, but it's always a moment too late for me to make the decision to stop and hand them some money or food. It's 💯% God conditioning me to keep my lanterns trimmed; to be mindful and ready to spring at that split-second moment to be a good Samaritan.
As I blessed the man and took back off, I passed a man outside a restaurant on the phone. As I passed, he said, “Don't worry, forget about it. It's all good.” At the moment I heard it, I thought it was about the rage episode I had, and that helped me talk about it, y'know? But there's a message across time, too. On my way back, I passed an absurd number of lottery tickets on the ground, like two hundred. This was a reminder of a moment years ago when I got mugged in Miami while following the whispers of God. This was critical for my development and because of it, I had no problem eating out of garbage cans with my now life partner and I first met while homeless together. If I wasn't mugged, I would not have been in the place of my development to be ready to meet this man I love so dearly.
There are times God scolds me for drinking through synchronicity. But then there are times God tells me to drink, and has made it clear by unlocking my bike lock in the most peculiar way one time, magickally, to convey the message that He is disentangling myself from my “self.” For some reason, I'm reminded of my first conversation with Vince. We get pushed together when God says it's time.
