Reggie Watts

It's the experiences that challenge the state.

And so meaning the identity that we have within ourselves, the idea of who we are as we move through the world is held really by...

exterior environment it's like nature nurture right it's like you got this blueprint when you're born it's like you have a magnetic signature it's a alignment of planets and gravitational bodies that are very unique at that moment when you're born it's like snaps like a flash photography like boom there's your fingerprint and then you've got uh you know then you've got the environment around you that you're growing up in with the template that you have so your personality template tendencies and stuff like that you have epigenetics and all this stuff

So there's, like, these things that are localizing your identity.

But as we move through life, the realization is that we never were any of those things, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself infinitely, and that this is just an exercise in consciousness to exercise, you know, the idea of being conscious and the celebration of being alive.

And, like, what are the challenges?

No matter how dark it gets, no matter, like, you know...

like, you know, someone harms your family or someone, but you know, whatever it is, or you lose your job or, you know, all of these things, they're all like, okay, what, how are you going to deal with this essentially?

And then the thing on top of that is humor and, and humor and absurdity.

That's where I think when you, you asked a question about like, I think like something about like how I've,

how it's changed maybe throughout my life as i've been growing up or whatever as i say that's the constant the constant is that this reality is a muppet reality it's just a bunch of goofiness it's all silly even in the face of the darkest like i've had like experiences with police and stuff like that and

um, you know, I wrote this quote, that's probably not mine, but I wrote, I just said like, recognize yourself in others.

And so that's what I'm looking for.

That's why things are funny.

Cause I'm like, recognize my, myself in that situation and how ridiculous that would be, you know?

And so, um, the humor is kind of like the overarching.

So when it comes to anxiety and I have friends that are like suffering from anxiety, I try not to be like

because I hang out with a lot of younger people and I'm 53 now.

And so like I have younger friends and I'm trying not to be prescriptive and being like, well, once you get to my, you know, it's not that, but I am giving them reflective tools.

I'm saying, here's something to think about.