Yung Pueblo

There is physical gravity.

You go to the gym because at a certain age, if you're not holding those muscles up, gravity is bringing them down.

But there's emotional, psychological gravity too.

If we're not exercising with accumulated repetitions of positivity and graciousness and forgiveness and mercy and...

personal responsibility, then we're headed down to anger, to cynicism, to anxiety, to depression.

And that's really where we are right now.

We're at a moment where you're either headed down or headed up.

You know, we've had this myth of neutrality, but there's really no such thing as a neutral thought.

There's no such thing as a neutral life.

Either our energy is being sucked into this maelstrom that's at this point a downward spiral, and you see it all around us.

Institutions crumbling, people's relationships, how people feel about themselves.

or you're part of this evolutionary spiraling up that is also happening, that we're all, you know, and the kind of people who would be listening to your podcast feel part of and want to be part of.

These two simultaneous phenomenon happening at the same time.

You know, you just take so much for granted when you're younger.

And when you're older and you look back and you realize, I didn't realize...

I didn't take my life seriously enough or I didn't take other people's lives seriously enough.

I didn't take that relationship seriously enough, other people's relationships seriously enough.

And look at the state of the world.

You know, I've said to people, who would have thought we'd be nostalgic from the 1970s?

You know, we just had no idea.