The Viable Alternative

Summer has officially arrived in my part of the world and I couldn’t be more thrilled and happy because this is my favourite season! Woohoo!!

Anyhoo, some time back, I wrote a blog titled, “9 Ways You Can Find Your Strength As a Sheltered, Emasculated Man,” and one of the things I suggested in this blog was to learn how to cook for yourself.

I thought I was the only one who dealt with morning anxiety where as soon as you wake up, you get a flood of negative thoughts and anxious feelings about life which get your day off to a bad start. However, after encountering a number of other people with similar experiences, I’m finding that it’s quite a common occurrence.

2013 was truly a crappy, difficult year that I was truly happy about when it ended.

If you haven’t heard about Andrew Tate, let me briefly give a summary. He’s a biracial, British-American (or American British), former kickboxing champ, multi-millionaire entrepreneur, international playboy that was the most Googled man in the planet back in 2022 for his incendiary, polarizing remarks about women, dating, relationships, men, “the Matrix,” politics, religion and current affairs.

In the early morning of June 21, 2022, I finished a trip with my first heroic dose of psilocybin mushrooms. I started around 8:50ish PM EST and it wound down at 1:30 AM, so it was around 5 hours. Due to prior experiences with the plant, listening to the accounts of others who’ve used it for healing purposes, sitting with my uncomfortable feelings in the sauna, and having learned how to use the tools of Emotional Welcoming and Revealing taught by a company called Fearless, I was able to make the best of this trip and have my best experience yet, though it was quite intense and at times I wasn’t sure my body could take all the emotional and spiritual processing.

I was 25 years old, had graduated college about a year and a half earlier, and was working a 9 to 5 at IBM as an associate consultant.

I remember it clear as day (although it was at night).

I’ve never been a drug user. The most I’ve ever tried are weed and alcohol, and I’ve never had any interest whatsoever of ever going beyond that to something harder.

A few days ago, I got a message from a friend asking me for advice because everything his child was doing was making him angry.

So yesterday, Day “whatever” of the quarantine, as I was winding down and getting ready to go to bed, I felt a bit disappointed with myself because I felt I didn’t accomplish muchthat day.