Culture would have you believe there are introverts and extroverts. I say with my solar plexus in full power, there are horizontal and vertical thinkers.
Within the lodges, clubs, churches and organizations there are horizontal creatures who appear outgoing, social and adept at small talk and social mastery/trickery/mimicry. This horizontal existence is broad but narrow banded. They are safe and act habitually in a way that looks easy and they drink alcohol and the lines get a little fuzzy but not too fuzzy. They will partake in other social lubricants as well but only if agreed upon by the entire culture therein. They agree on each holiday and every year they happily craft decorations and customs more aligned with a preschool than an advancing adult. Windows and halls decorated many many times over in a year to collectively focus on one agreed upon celebration after another. Like post after post they ride and mend the fence to keep others out and themselves within. Knowing not why, where, or if it will end. The narrow ribbon of wide but not deep, expanding thus far until the calendar ends, then more celebrations and spending and cheer, lending its happiness just once a year, lesser and more so each holiday ranks, but the end of the calendar all records will break.
Now for the vertical ones who are seen as introverts, hermits, witches and dreamers. Thinking away their time in one place, although inside is where from they create, not from Pinterest or YouTube or class, but from their ideas born and some hatched, direct from the seed or the passenger of, this body we use until we cash our chips in. The verticals feel claustrophobic and clenched sitting in chairs in rows at a time, they avoid these collections of bodies in blocks, feeling much less when they aren't a good fit. Their minds can't spill over and dream of more things, they must pay attention and pass even more screens. They prefer where the two in space/time do meet, the event horizon, above and below, not simulation to act in but flow, over and under, but most likely between, caring to observe and contemplate unseen. What they create and celebrate so, is the beautiful expanse of the individual's core.
I seem to favor the Vertical ones, not so, it's just something a person should ponder once on.
Attempt to see logic and attempt to feel light, attempt your ideas to create your own life. Not as a faith or a list of small rules, but innate pure ethics you'd do well to groom.
-Eve Featherstone EveIsOne
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