What If We Didn't Have to Earn Our Right to Exist? Rethinking Work, Worth, and What Human Beings Are Here to Do

So more than a decade later, now here we are.

And it's chaotic.

And there are a lot of times, a lot of things that are being dismantled.

There's a lot of questioning.

There's a lot of unveiling.

There's a lot of things that are being exposed, right? And so I think deconstructing these words and these terms and the things that we've accepted is a good thing to do right now, because there is something happening.

And as things are falling apart, there is something that's trying to emerge.

So I think it was about last year, about a year ago, when I started to become really preoccupied with words and phrases.

Now, that was just like a little taste all those years ago.

And I'm just scrolling on blue sky.

And suddenly the term earn a living popped out at me.

And I asked the question, like, what is this thing, this assumption that we must earn a living? What does that mean? We have to learn, we have to earn the right to exist? Like, that just seems effed up, basically.

And I had a really dramatic and negative reaction to it that felt really disproportionate, but it just kind of stayed in my unconscious.

And Since then, though, I've become really preoccupied with words.

So, for example, in working with my clients, they might say, I have anxiety.

Or they might label somebody as a narcissist.

And I'll ask them, is that really true? You know, what do you mean by that? And often they've adopted somebody else's definition of their state, of their energetic state.

And often it's really not the right term.

And from a depth psychology perspective, of course, symptoms like anxiety and depression are a way our unconscious is getting us to explore something.

And out in society, of course, Our healthcare system wants to, you know, sell you a drug to sort of numb you to what is the deeper thing that's trying to happen.

So my clients and I are exploring words these days.

And also like even the whole DSM, that manual that therapists use to find like what's wrong with you.

It's gotten to the point where even therapists are very concerned that simply, number one, being human is a disorder.

And number two, the reason that we feel these things isn't because we're doing anything wrong.

It's really because we're living in systems that are sick, systems that are harming us.