I Do Not Recommend Living with an Open Heart and Mind
Pain is the price of our freedom but we don't want to pay the cost
We live in a world built out of stories, and whoever controls the stories controls the world. Or at least that’s how it used to be.
Today, as the dominate narrative collapses, we find ourselves faced with the paradoxical truth: we share “reality” but we each live in our own world.
At Love and the Multiverse we aim to decipher the story of this reality and of the individual worlds that inform it.
I do not recommend living with an open heart. Protect yourself from pain. Keep your heart closed—it is better that way.
Stay in your lane.
Trust what you know.
Trust what feels comfortable.
Play hard to get.
Make them earn it.
Stay rigid. I promise. It’s worth it.
Do not live with an open heart.
Your naked freedom is not your shield.
If you live with your heart open, it will break again and again. This will hurt too much. This pain—it is a foolish thing to allow.
You should not do foolish things.
Do not be Fortune’s Fool.
Stay hard.
Stay closed.
Stay sane.
I do not recommend living with an open mind. Keep your mind shut. Double down on what you already know.
Do not try to see things differently or try to understand worlds different from your own.
Opening your mind will only bring you stress. It may even bring you into crisis. If you open your mind you will have to question the ground you stand upon. Not just once or twice, but again and again.
Feeling the ground shift beneath your feet, not knowing where to stand, is uncomfortable. You do not want to do this work. You want to keep the ground underneath your feet solid so you don’t have to feel any discomfort.
Keep your mind closed.
The more you know, the higher the risk is that you will go insane. I’m not joking. The more you open your mind, the more you learn that truth is contradictory and painful. This is why I do not recommend opening your mind.
Do not burn away your ego. Do not shed layers of your identity. Do not become different. Do not leave old versions of yourself behind.
Stay closed.
The key to doing this is judgement.
Of others. Of yourself.
Keep judging.
Stay in the place of moral superiority. Stay where it’s safe. This will keep you sane.
You cannot hold the rage or the grief that comes with truth. You would go mad if you understood. Do not live with an open mind. Do not invite pain in.
Pain is not the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Pain is not the shattering of illusion.
Pain is not the revelation of a deeper layers of truth.
Pain is to be avoided and suppressed at all costs.
I do not recommend living with an open mind and heart.