josighah – fun! Lyrics

fun! – josighah Lyrics

He's right though

Literally he's right

Y'all- bro, y'all really got to sit with that question for a second, bro

Like, you really gotta sit with it

Because when you zoom out

It's really not a hypothetical

We're already running the experiment

How far from the body can you pull a human before they forget what the body even feels like?

How far from the Earth can you move someone before they stop noticing the ground underneath their feet?

How long can you keep people inside boxes, staring at screens, inhaling recycled air, eating synthetic food

Working jobs that don't make sense to their nervous system, or their lives, or their universal purpose, before their spirit starts quietly screaming?

And look, the scary part is not that people are suffering, the scary part is how normal it's been made

We wake up to alarms and- and blue light instead of sunlight

We sit instead of move

We stare instead of feel

We scroll instead of think

We consume instead of create

We medicate symptoms instead of asking why the fuck the symptoms exist in the first place

And then we call that modern life

Humans were not built for this pace

How many times do I have to tell you guys this?

All this noise

This level of abstraction

This lifestyle, this modern lifestyle

We are mammals with nervous systems, dude

Not machines, we're not robots, but we're being trained and programmed

Slowly, subtly, politely, to live like we are

And this is nothing new under the sun, ladies and gentlemen

Nobody had to force it violently, they just made it convenient

That's the part people don't want to admit

Nobody had to put a gun to anyone's head

You just had to make the unnatural easier than the natural

Make stillness awkward

Make silence uncomfortable

Make boredom feel dangerous

And make slowness feel like a failure

You had to make rest feel like laziness

Make being alone with your thoughts feel unbearable

Then you let the system run

You don't need change when habits do the job

You don't need cages when comfort keeps people seated

You don't need oppression to look brutal when it can look efficient

And look around you

Anxiety is through the roof

Depression is everywhere

People are disconnected, angry, numb, divided, overstimulated, exhausted

And deeply confused and lost

And then told something is wrong with them

No, something is wrong with the environment

We have normalized a way of living that is fundamentally hostile to the human nervous system

And then we act surprised when people crack

And you know what really fucks with me, dude?

People will really sit up here and defend this way of living like it's natural law

They'll say "Oh, that's just how the world works"

No, that's how the system works, huge difference

That is not human nature, this is not how Earth works

This is conditioning

Humans adapt to almost anything

That is our gift and our curse

You can convince people to live in ways that quietly drain them

As long as the shift is gradual enough that they don't notice what they've lost

Until one day, something snaps internally, and people start saying "I don't know what's wrong, I just don't feel right"

That right there is your body telling the truth your mouth has not caught up to yet

(This is conditioning)

I think one of the best takeaways I've ever had was from a college class I was never supposed to end up in

Took it by accident

It's called creative non-fiction writing, which is an oxymoron

How do you do creative non-fiction writing?

Long story short, my senior year I needed three more credits

Elective credits, to get my degree

So, I had to fill something in that slot

I waited 'till the last minute, creative non-fiction was the only thing left

Fine, I go in

The professor, very very different than any professor I've ever had before

Comes in, sits down, he- he looks up, pauses, and he-

First- first day, first thing he goes-

Three years of therapy in sixty seconds, here we go

(Three, two, one)

Number one, turns out your parents did their best and also kinda fucked you up

But guess what? At the end of the day, you gotta deal with it

Number two, no one is coming to save you

No magical mentor, no secret billionaire uncle, not even fuckin' Batman

It's just you

And yeah, that includes doing basic stuff like folding your laundry before it becomes a fuckin' roommate

Number three, boundaries

That doesn't mean blocking somebody on Instagram

Say it with me, no

With a smiley face, no

See? Revolutionary

Don't have to be mean or rude

Number four, stop chasing people who treat you like a fucking option

I'm not a side quest, and if they can't see that, they need to go play somebody else's game

Number five, self care isn't bath bombs and face masks

It's getting eight hours of sleep, eating something that grew in the ground

And answering that email before it ruins your whole fucking week

Number six, feelings don't kill you

Crying won't kill you, screaming into a pillow won't kill you

But ignoring your feelings? Oh, that's gonna destroy you from the inside out

Number seven, you don't find yourself, you build yourself, day by day

Some days you're leveling up, and other days your respawning at square one, both of 'em count

Last but not least, most of the time it's not that deep

You're not cursed, you're just tired, thirsty, and maybe overdue for a snack

There you go, that's three years of therapy condensed into a sixty second rant

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