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There is a path from here to there paved in reels of undeveloped film.
You are the only one who will ever see it the way you experienced it.
You get to keep all the pictures.
You can choose which way to go
but you’ll never be for certain the future of not yet.
Life lives in mystery, love, and what’s not yet known.
The power of the future not yet.
© Victoria Venturella, MA, The Existentialist, Existential Dialogues
Moon Clock
In full vulnerability
Illuminating bright
Luminescence.
You see yourself glimmer
In the gaze of the Other.
Temporal rotation.
Within a shadow
We meet ourselves.
Where are we?
With myself how do I see myself?
In thought? On the page? In a recording?
In my reflections of my recent experiences.
I see myself in you. I see you in myself.
Part of each other’s present evolution.
You no longer are where you were.
One section of chapters becoming the palate to paint the next section.
Opening my evolution from the page I am on today.
Moon Clock
Time to illuminate the world to reveal who we are to ourselves.
Without the world who would we be?
How could we see who we are without all that exists beyond us?
We would be nothing without the world.
© Victoria Venturella, MA, The Existentialist, Existential Dialogues
Who defines perfect?
Who defines your imperfections?
Society leaves space for human error because it’s a given that human beings will potentially miss something in any given circumstance.
You can try to excel at something, lower the potentiality for making a mistake in this or that. You can attempt to perfect what you or society consider imperfections. But the mere fact that these imperfections exist are absolutely what makes you a perfect human.
Would you be human without error?
Being a perfect human accounts for the potentiality of not knowing, not seeing, not hearing, not understanding, memory misalignment. While at the same time we have lots of resources out there to help us learn, get on track, inform ourselves, to make better choices. Even if you were an expert in the field at something, there is always the potential for not having noticed something, doesn’t mean you won’t notice it later, and if someone pointed it out to you right now you would integrate it into what you know seamlessly.
There isn’t a human being that exists that doesn’t warrant grace for human error. Therefore, making errors is part of what makes us a perfect human.
Let’s consider what society deems as perfect, or what you consider as perfect. Someone who is perfect knows how to show up at all social situations, can pick up on every social cue and respond effectively, can feel into their emotions, can master every single thing they try on the first attempt, can beat everyone at everything, you name it they will win it, can raise perfect children just like themselves, can be everywhere at the exact same moment, can satisfy all the needs of everyone they know at the same time, practices self-care, takes on new hobbies, pursues all their passions and excels at every single one of them, gets exceptional sleep nightly, wakes up with a pep in their step onto the kitchen to make an amazing breakfast that fulfills all the nutrients needed to jump start the day, can pick up on all social cues as if they are a mind reader and know exactly how to respond to the other to where they can be just as supportive as they are needing to be, never gets sick, the body and mind coincide until late age and body depletion never hinders what they want to pursue in late life, they know every answer to everything, they can win every talk show, they remember everything they have been through in life and having exceptional recall, they photograph books into their brain and file them away for easy access later, nothing they ever cook tastes off and never burns, they never trip walking up the stairs, they always know where they are going, they never accidently add something together wrong, they learned every foreign language, and can speak it fluently to native cultures, they give excellent massages and have the capacity to be emotionally supportive to everyone in the world in the same way a therapist can to a select number of clients without conflict of interest, their attachment style is completely secure regardless of how they were treated as a child, the trauma they experience in the world is processed on their own in their own head, everything can be articulated and nothing is too complicated, they write all the New York Times best sellers, writes prolific poetry, graduates Cum Laude after choosing from any of all schools they were accepted into, never gets into a car accident, upholds a physique that never wavers no matter what they eat or whether they work out or not, never not thinks of a possible option to why something may be the way that it is, they can instantly consider all the potential possibilities with all possible outcomes and make a choice on the spot without having to sleep on it, they remember everyone’s birthday, they know every holiday in every culture by heart, calls all their friends and family in a sufficient amount of time to maintain close relationships, never kills a plant they pot, never leaves the oven on, never gets sun burned, they can also hear everything around them perfectly as if each thing is isolated on its own within every situation, there is not room for any error.
© Victoria Venturella, MA, The Existentialist, Existential Dialogues
#perfection
#imperfection
#beingperfect
#makingmistakes
#humanerror
Even when it feels like the ground no longer exists below you,
And the outcome seems infinitely uncertain,
Allow yourself to free fall into the universe of the unknown.
So much will come from your willingness to find out what will one day be.
Be with the mystery,
Love fully even with the potential heartbreak,
New choices lead us somewhere else.
Live freely.
Live loudly.
Live into your fullest potential in life.
© Victoria Venturella, MA, The Existentialist, Existential Dialogues
When you think a thought does it stop right there?
Do you stretch it to every corner of the world?
Do you take it inward and sit with it real deep?
Do you blurt it out letting it fall into the room?
How far does your curiosity guide you?
Are you willing to unravel where this thought came from?
How many experiences merge for you to conjure such an interpretation?
What do you do when something you are thinking doesn’t make sense?
What thoughts do you choose not to entertain?
When do you let a thought go on purpose?
Where does it go when it feels like it evaporates?
What do you consciously do with thoughts that continually resurface?
Do you sound out your feelings on paper?
What do you do with all the images you imagine? Do you ever imagine painting them?
Sketching them out blanketly in the sky above the sea, lost in thought staring lightly blue.
What do you do with the thoughts you zone out deeply thinking about?
How far do those thoughts expand when you forgot everything else mattered?
What does it feel like to think in silence?
How many instruments do you hear in this song?
Have you ever considered how many things influenced one thought? Chain of thoughts? Perpetual thoughts?
What do you do when you realize something you do comes from your Mother? Father? Caregiver? Mentor? Partner? Friend? How many thoughts become attached to that?
Have you ever examined what you tell yourself and ponder where it comes from?
Those questions that flood our psyche.
Have you ever considered what led you to such a passion? Where is this energy stored?
What do you do with creative juices felt in abundance?
How many branches hold a potential possibility in this imaginative thinking tree?
How many thoughts get lost in your shower?
What about the last one before you sleep?
What about the thoughts that pertain to why we are even here?
What do you think it means to be free?
To be free we must all be free.
Have you ever challenged yourself to find your own answer?
Do you hinder your best-self due to the perception of the other?
How important is it to you to form your own opinion?
Caption- [How far do you expand thought?]
#thinkdeeper
#doresearch
#deepthinker
#formyourownopinion
#philosophy
#poet
#deeppoems
#poems
#thinkingthing
#thinker
#think
#askmorequestions
#question
#existentialquestions
#showerthoughts
#freewill
#freedom
#deepconversations
Can you attempt to exist within the shoes of the other?
#thinktank
#brainstorm
#imagination
#imagine
#dreambigger
#dreambig
#ideamachiene
#youchoose
#loveyourself
#yourarepowerful
#youarehere
#youexist
#existential
#existentialangst
#existentialdread
#trusttheuniverse
#existentialphenomeology
#victoriaventurella
#relationshipwithself #communication #transcendence
#futureself #infinitepossibilities
#existentialpsychotherapy
Victoria Venturella, MA, Existential Phenomenological Psychotherapist, LMHCA
@ExistentialDialogues
@Centralpurposetherapy
© Victoria Venturella, Existential Dialogues, The Existentialist
““To perceive is suddenly to commit to an entire future of experiences in a present that never, strictly speaking, guarantees that future; to perceive is to believe in a world. It is this opening to a world that makes perceptual truth possible, or the actual realization of a Wahr-Nehmung, and permits us “to cross out” the preceding illusion, to hold it to be null and void. . .I was conscious of seeing a shadow and now I am conscious of having only seen a fly. My belonging to the world allows me to compensate for the fluctuations of the cogito, to displace one cogito in favor of another, and to meet up with the truth of my thought beyond its appearance (p.311). ”