8/19
Blind optimism is an acceptance of a perceived reality and complete rejection of alternatives. It’s a chosen brainwash and admittance to a personal cult. The cult has two tenants: 1) Our time is limited; we are biological machines. 2) We are powerful beyond measure when we work with our mortal counterparts.
Under these tenants we must choose to optimize our biological machines. The food we consume, the physical movement we activate and the sleep we caretake all balance the hormones that flood our brains. By optimizing our hormonal balance, we are better able to use our frontal cortex to perceive our reality. Hormonal imbalance allows the amygdala and hypothalamus to involuntary overtake our frontal cortex- resulting in mistimed anger, frustration, and sadness. By striving to optimize our biological machine, we can better choose when to deploy or succumb to our emotions to enhance the circumstances we encounter. Emotions carry high energy stakes. Sadness is time consuming. Love is disorienting. Anger is cheap. Fear is distracting. Joy is radiating. Once accepting our realities are a biological tightrope walk, we can begin to appreciate every step- the shakiness and steadiness of the woven fibers beneath our feet, the moments we look up to take in the horizons and path ahead, the sounds and smells that permeate our periphery.
The beauty of humanity is that these biological machines do not exist in isolation. We navigate this planet with other creative machines that have an expiry. Working together with intentional empathy creates a conservation and concentration of energy that can build anything our collective cortexes imagine. The opportunity to synthesize these energies is the purest gift for our creative consciousnesses.
When darkness descends and our sense of sight betrays us, we realize it’s the oxygen we breathe and the proprioception enabled from our fingertips that form the essence our existence. The darkness removes judgement of appearance. Choices are distilled to simply find others, to simply find light. There are no other options but to find a way out, to build a way up.
We find others. We build in darkness. The light will return. The light will reveal our creations. The collective satisfaction that ensues will be unparalleled in our historical assessment of our contributions and appreciation of our existence.
The word “optimism” is defined by hope, confidence and belief - implying a choice to reject abandon, fear and doubt. The blind optimist rejects the option of a choice. There is only one option, one reality: empower and move forward.
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Our team has recently endured some darks days, but it is in these days that we have found each other. We have distilled our moments together to fall into formation, to band together our strengths to pursue the glimmers of light we still hold true.
It is in these times we must remain blindly optimistic, to reject the options of abandon, fear and doubt, to appreciate the gift we have at our fingertips. This gift is the opportunity to synthesize energy with our fellow creatives, build the solutions that will outlive us, all on a backbone that keeps its virtuous mission. No matter the circumstance, it is a continued privilege and pleasure to build with all of you in resilient Harmony.