Third Eyrops are intended for open-minded adults.

Now administering the Third Eyed Drops. Welcome, Welcome, Wonder D. Hope you're lovely. I am feeling increasingly frozen in

the liminal zone between chaos and normalcy. I think that's a fair way to describe this period of time. Yet at the same time I'm feeling more and more like that's all life really is some kind of liminal zone between chaos and normal

see that is wriggling ever closer to either one extreme or the other.

But in the midst of whatever this is,

there have been some bright spots in the neurological slurry.

I did stumble across this incredible riff by the stoic philosopher Cleanthes the other day.

This quote, fate leads the willing and drags the reluctant.

And as I personally bumble and tumble my way through this liminal micaldum, at least from my current perspective.

That really is feeling more and more like the case.

And I know that fate is an incredibly loaded word, sounds really cliche, sounds antithetical to action, sounds like we have no agency, but when I say fate

I don't mean to imply that we've got no free will whatsoever, But you have to admit there is definitely a stream of

impossibly complex phenomena both inner and outer influencing us at every turn that amounts to some level of

determinism. Maybe it's collectively nothing more than dumb, inert physics and biology.

Maybe there's a level of teleology there.

Maybe it's a mixture of the two.

I don't know.

But what I do know is that resisting whatever that flow is ain't gonna do you much good.

But going with it, getting to know it, paying attention to the way things tend to go?

I think that's smart. I think that's constructive.

We can gain insight into how we tend to react with this disposition. We can gain insight into when we tend to succeed and fail.

And in doing that, I think we can get better at getting on top of that flow rather than drowning beneath it.

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