The Time Travelers

Humans are time travelers. Memories carry emotional imprints that our nervous systems relive as we play them in our mind's eye. We often revisit these emotional landscapes to re-experience the moments that sculpted our DNA. We run to them when we miss the spirits of our deceased loved ones, the spirit of a decade, a place, a version of us that crumbled away. These synaptic atmospheres feel like tangible places in which these ghosts have eternal life, memory being our only access point for reconnection.

We may also find ourselves traveling back in time, compulsively trying to "fix" what has already existed.

"If only this had happened,"

"If only this hadn't happened,"

Repeatedly trying to undo a path that was laid down to create the current version of us, our lives, our world, not realizing we are ultimately trying to destroy our present selves and reality in these moments of nostalgic desperation.

No matter the turbulence experienced to get you here, it is done. You are here. You were and are always here. 📍

When we grow exhausted of being a slave to our past and refuse to be the creator of our present, we hyperfixate on the future. Not understanding the future is now. Everything we do and don't do is creating the next level on the ferris wheel we wish to attain. You will get there when you get there. And it will be glorious no matter what it will be, because it will be.

In the end, all of us will return to the ground, get off this ride, and remember looking out from the top. And many of us will desire to begin again.

Enjoy the present moment. Enjoy the ride this week and every week. Stop letting your past and your future ruin it for you now.

Art by Natalie Frank

Love,

Gabbi 🎡♾️