On being realistic

Funny that “realists” fancy themselves most realistic when they talk money and the economy, the ultimate abstractions.

In the same breath, they dismiss the realest matters (health, relationships, environment, basic food and shelter) as “unrealistic” because they consume too much of that measuring unit we call money.  Paraphrasing Alan Watts, they refuse to build a house because they don’t have enough inches.  

While we can’t help but play along with this fiction (the need to play in order to survive is real indeed), pure uncut reality will eventually slap us in that moment when we try to buy a healed body or a mended relationship and the check bounces.  

What’s Big Quit Energy “quitting” into?  My answer changes all the time, but today it feels correct to say I want to quit into reality, into a mind frame where we don’t overvalue fiction and undervalue what most directly supports life. 

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