Logic Is For Nerds

Summer ending is a feeling. We don’t need to mark Labour Day on the calendar to know this. The mind and body already been knew this. Your skin registers the shift in light before your brain even processes that the days are getting shorter. Every day in August feels like a Sunday. There's something in the air that tells you things are changing. And that awareness doesn't come from looking at a calendar. It comes from a feeling.

Never look past what you feel. Never. Feel good. Feel bad. Feel whatever. It's something. It's your internal compass trying to tell you where you are and where you need to go.

I haven't written in over a month. Because I felt good. Content. Settled. And contentment is not conducive to the kind of creative desperation that makes you sit down and write words onto a page. When you feel good your body and mind have no urgent need to process anything. Everything just is. You wake up, you go through your day, you feel fine, and there's no internal pressure demanding release.

But when you feel bad, that's when creation happens. That's when you need to get the feelings out, to transform whatever chaos is happening inside you into something external. It's funny how that works. Negative feelings, the ones we spend so much energy trying to avoid, are the ones that force us to create, to put something into the world as a way to process whatever we're feeling.

You bleed just to know you're alive.

Pain confirms existence in a way that happiness can’t. Happiness dissolves even as you experience it. But pain demands acknowledgment.

And that's the point. The difficult feelings aren't bugs in the system. They're your body's way of saying pay attention. Something here needs to be examined. Something here needs to be felt fully before it can be released.

Both states are necessary. The good feelings and the bad ones. The periods of contentment and the periods of desperation. We are constantly in a cycle of life, death, and resurrection. And if you trust that your emotions are trying to tell you something important, things start to put themselves together.

Your body and mind are constantly processing emotions, making connections, solving problems at a level below conscious thought. And the only way that can happen is through feeling. Logic is for nerds. Knowledge does not come from thinking.

No matter how bad or good you feel, the feeling itself is meaningful. It's your body's way of orienting you in the world, of helping you navigate the complexity of being conscious in a world that doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Things put themselves together when you stop fighting what you feel and start listening to what it might be trying to tell you. When you stop treating your emotions like inconvenient interruptions to productivity and start recognizing them as a communication system that's been keeping you alive and connected.

So feel it all. The good, the bad, the in-between. Summer ended a month ago, not today. Just as we don't need calendars to sense seasonal change, we don't need external validation to trust our internal emotional weather. Let yourself write when you need to write, not when you think you should. Let yourself be human, which means feeling, which means being alive to the constant flow of sensation and emotion and awareness that makes existence both terrible and wonderful and worth experiencing.

Everything is a feeling.

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