I Don’t Know How To Exist

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s.</p><p id="d06c">I do not know how to be</p><p id="b8a6">as I am.</p><p id="82d8">I do not know how to simply</p><p id="fbb7">exist.</p><blockquote id="4033"><p>Tagging <a href="undefined">Yan Huang</a> | <a href="undefined">Nia Simone McLeod</a> | <a href="undefined">Stuart Englander</a>| <a href="undefined">Melissa Bee</a> | <a href="undefined">Salma Alaa</a> | <a href="undefined">Kat Magik</a> | <a href="undefined">Jen</a> if you’re up to it and anyone else interested in today’s prompt: <b>stillness. Can you be in it?</b></p></blockquote><p id="4432"><a href="https://readmedium.com/submit-to-the-brain-is-a-noodle-d9f9398fea4"><b>How to join: include the original post of the person who tagged you for reference and tag 5–10 other people (or simply ‘tag all’) who might be interested in this prompt! (Ps, there’s no deadline!)</b></a></p><p id="6057">Hi I’m <a href="undefined">Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她)</a> and if I sit still, I suddenly get this urge to <b><i>do something</i></b><i> </i>and just <b><i>get up.</i></b> Anyone else feel this?</p><p id="6b78"><b><i>Hop down the rabbit hole? 🐰🕳</i></b></p><div id="a4cd" class="link-block">

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Do you?

I’m coming clean: I don’t know how to exist.

What does that even mean? We live, we survive, we may thrive, on the good sunny days, right?

I know how to write, to produce, to create in so many forms channeling an inner city of bustling thoughts into consumable forms of candy for others to savour.

I know how to consume these beautiful ideas packaged into delicious snacks to nourish my brain and agitate for yet a new perspective on life.

But I do not know how to stop.

Even when I meditate it is an action; my mindfulness is in movement rather than in stillness.

I do not know how to be

as I am.

I do not know how to simply

exist.

Hi I’m Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) and if I sit still, I suddenly get this urge to do something and just get up. Anyone else feel this?

Hop down the rabbit hole? 🐰🕳