Riptide

 

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I am distinctly uncomfortable in human society. I don’t have a tolerance for misalignment and don’t wish to develop one. I suffer from a whole host of symptoms that plague me when I enter an ego-dense environment and fade when I leave. It’s not judgmental or emotional, it’s visceral; all-encompassing, system-wide, fatiguing. I’ve sat in meetings where I had to brace my head to keep it from flopping over. I don’t consider this aversion a problem just as I wouldn’t consider an aversion to swamp gas a problem; the toxic environment is the cause and sickness is the effect. When I remove myself from the cause, the effect disappears.

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