One Practical Thing: Keep a Record of Your Truths
Everyone has a right to the truth.
The Shepard Scale is an auditory illusion of a tone that seems to continually ascend or descend in pitch, but it never peaks or bottoms out.
It is eerie, even anxiety-inducing, to listen to. It's a fitting accompaniment for the times ahead of us.
We must ground ourselves in our senses and our sense of self. When we are being told what we see and hear isn't real even when we know it to be. When we realize something we've been presented with as real is not.
Disbelief is paralyzing. Disbelief at the realities to come. Disbelief at the 1,000 little deceptions that now come with even the most mundane activities of life. A photograph that isn't real. A sentence that was never actually spoken by a human lips. A promise that was completely empty. Standards not actually kept.
For every little deception, there exists a little truth.
Ground yourself in that which you know to be real. In whatever frame of reference or level of detail that works for you. Keep a record of your truths.
Some thing, some act, some moment, someone...
- you see
- you feel
- you learn
- you change
- you observe change in
- you don't want to forget
- you don't want the world to forget
- you were inspired by or found meaning in
Be it meandering paragraphs or tidy lists, keep a record of your truths.
In whatever way makes the most sense to you, whether that is actual pen and paper, or a notes app, voice notes, a social media account, whatever...keep a record for yourself.
One Practical Thing is a series of posts about practical, tactical actions for personal wellbeing, building community, contributing to the collective good and protecting vulnerable people, places and things.
