カーリー・ウォパットのインスタグラム(carlywopat) - 3月26日 03時40分

I’ve been trying to think of something to say for the past week, and I keep coming up empty handed. How do you put a million different feelings into words? How do you ease the struggle of the entire human population brought to their knees by something you can’t even see?

I look around at this unfamiliar space we are in, and I feel deeply. As human beings, we share a tendency to scramble for certainty whenever we realize that everything around us is in flux. In difficult times, all we want is to find solid ground - something predictable and safe to stand on.

But things will only keep changing.

In truth, the very nature of our existence is forever in flux. Everything keeps changing whether we’re aware of it or not. It’s the fundamental ambiguity of human existence. The anxiety or queasiness in the face of impermanence isn’t something that afflicts just a few of us; it’s an all-pervasive state that we all share. But are we doomed to suffer?

The ground is always shifting. Nothing lasts, including us. Like all life forms, I too am a brief and passing thing. But it’s not impermanence, or even knowing that we are eventually going to die, that is the cause of our suffering. Rather, it’s the resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation.

At this moment, change seems to hit like a roiling and turbulent river threatening to drown us and destroy the world. But it’s the fear-based clinging to the certainty of the shore that keeps us from the infinitely more satisfying experience of being fully alive. We can step right into the river and be completely, fearlessly present. We can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality. We can live beautifully with whatever comes - heartache and joy, success and failure, instability and change.
Another word for this is FREEDOM. Freedom to be with life just as it is.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. - Agnes De Mille

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