Living the World in You

[August 3, 2025]

There are many moments in my day-to-day living where it feels like my soul takes a step back from my body and becomes more expansive. I realize that, as I'm living the world through these experiences, these experiences simultaneously encompass the world. The microcosm embodying the macrocosm. It's similar to that cliche people talk about on "to hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour" (William Blake defining the cliche)

Everyone dreams, like myself, of becoming famed - of becoming reputable - of leaving a "legacy", living the life that you dream others live. But with this perspective, you're already living the life of others'. The only matter that changes is external circumstance. People inherently think that the lives of others is divorced from yours because it seems so radically different...living in a large house...having a billion followers who follow your voice...claiming and starting a business. But in reality, we're all the same, and we're living humanity in ourselves the entire length of however long we stay alive. This feeling comes into being when you see clips or stories of how the "celebrities" behave like normal people. We forget the common sense of, of course they do. They have certain foods they dislike, like me with uni. They have nights where they lie awake at night, haunted by their falling short of dreams that hinted at a life sidestepped from where they are now. They sob into their pillows sometimes, they feel like their mind lags behind their bodies in mornings, they feel a bursting of love overwhelm for people in certain moments, they ache at a sense of nostalgia from a certain object, they crave a specific something at odd hours...

And what does it matter if their craving is in caviar, and mine's in brownies? What does it matter that their nostalgia's imbued in a hair clip, and mine in a hoodie?

What does it matter that I feel overjoyed in sunlight, someone else in moonlight, another in grey skies, someone in a sunset, one more in nothing? We're all experiencing the same things. We all go through this spectrum of human emotion that connects us all like underlying currents, but just manifests in different forms. I shouldn't need to go pursuing another life to feel a wholler sense of being "alive". I don't need to chase another life because I'm already living the extent of what life can offer, if that makes sense. We all have access to a different range of physical opportunities, but we're all living the same life. That's what I'm trying to say when I say my experiences already embody the world, that I don't need to chase a high that is elusively somewhere else.

It settles me. It comforts me. It humbles me. It tells me I don't need to push myself and pressure myself for something more that's out there.