so there we go, full scale invasion trap card activated. all seems a little surreal now doesn’t it, i mean we’ve had relative peace for so long in terms of major war but here we are with echos of the ussr rebooting. hard to believe in the cosmic cosmetic bubble of the way we live our lives these days that it’s a real thing, feels almost augmented, like someone put in the wrong memory card and started projecting on the big screen an alternative ending we were not expecting.
the directors cut of directors cut.
one vlogger that i’ve followed for years, Johnny FD has been buying up cheap property in ukraine for the last few years. i’ve always been following his blog articles because he was one of the old OG’s that created some shopify store and was living that digital nomad life. I don’t follow it super intently but i do check in to see what he’s up too — with russia potentially invading ukraine i’ve been checking in more.
this is his latest video this morning, he streamed for an hour, i’ve yet to watch it but his recent videos kinda shows this social media juxtaposition world we live in today. he was told by friends to leave and never did, thinking it probably wouldn’t come to this — but here we are, vlogger to war correspondent on the streets. wild.
be safe out there johnny fd please, not sure if you are gonna stay in place or try and get out, sometimes in life you have to live by your conviction, consumed by your courage, fool hardy or not you just have to step through now. all power to you, if you have investments there it makes sense you would stay regardless of what others have said to you.
for me it just highlights the world we live in now.. it’s like this big pseudo faux bubble that we live inside off, everything is backwards at coming forward. logic overwritten by the illogical, common sense sacrificed for the next piece of speculation media that everything is ok and to just keep pouring time, effort and money in hopium of an outcome where we all win.
Photo by Aegon Boucicault on Unsplash
I mostly feel for those generations that have never known peace in their lifetime, from one world stage event to another, they have never known a time when things were not just full on life event situation after another. Maybe we all have something to answer for that, maybe our apathy has caused us to not be as present as we could have been, to have done more.
but here we are, this is the new normal, pandemic into war. it’s hard out there for an empath today, processing all the ground energy that goes along with it. If your in the ukraine and you have decided to stay (and maybe defend) i give you my best. i have no doubt after the eight years of PTSD you finally want to see some kind of resolutions on all of this.
on days like this i wanna just pack up the car and drive, like just keep going, heading towards a temporary destination and stepping through booking a flight to my loved one yet torn by the decision to leave one behind, these are the challenges that are sent to us on a daily basis, to stay and flounder, to go and feel like you’ve left a huge part behind.
and no doubt the bad actors of the world will be rejoicing that the eyeballs are no longer on them for the moment as all resources are switched to focus on other areas of the world, the cold hard reality of the mechanical switch being thrown in space as a bath sized box of metal fires a thruster and reframes it’s eye on another section of the planet.
humble x