André Duqum

And, you know, the deeper realization was like, what if...

I actually came here to have a human experience.

How funny, you know, us being humans.

And it just invites, again, accepting more of our own humanity in the process of what it means to be here in this realm.

I watched a clip recently on the gram and this guy, I don't know who it was, just came up in my feed.

And he was talking about how he, because of a really bad accident, he couldn't feel anything, right?

Like sort of a form of paralysis, right?

And it was so beautiful because he said, when I got back and I started to heal, it took months, he said, I really enjoyed pain, not because pain is good, but because I got to feel.

And I really think that's one of, if we were to look at this through some bigger lens of the universe that we talked about right at the beginning, that gods have sent us to this particular dimension of planet Earth, I really feel that the ultimate intention of what it is to be human is just to feel pain.

Fill in the blank.

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't have to be joy and like, you know, euphoria and orgasm.

It could be like fucking heartache.

I mean, I love the fact that I love my dad so much.

It hurt that he died.

You know, it's all an expression of love, right?

In different ways.

And that to me is the gift that it is to be human.

And so whenever we deny ourselves feeling something, you're cutting off what it is to be alive and vital.

And we're so programmed to like, well, we only want the good shit, right?