Hello and welcome to Hitchhiker's Guide to Humanity. This is Erica from Earth Decoded, your fearless host who never says who she is at the beginning of these things. And so I'm going to start doing that because you should know who is talking to you. And also I've I've watched some other podcasts and these people actually say who they are even when they're famous. So my name is Erica. I'm a somatic energy practitioner. I'm also in training to be a better somatic energy practitioner. And I'm currently in a course called Embodied Processing. And so a lot of the content on this podcast will be about somatic healing learning. It'll also have my style of humor and just random observations about the trash fire that we call our planet right now. And I'm not calling Earth a trash fire. I'm calling her inhabitants a trash fire. Okay, so I got my daily Stoic book that a friend gifted to me a while back, and it has a excerpt for, like, every single day of the year. Okay. Carpe diem. That's the name of it. Let us therefore set out wholeheartedly, leaving aside our many distractions, and exert ourselves in the single purpose before we realize too late, the swift and unstoppable flight of time and are left behind as each day rises. Welcome it as the very best day of all. And make it your own possession. We must seize what flees that Seneca in his moral letters. You will only get one shot at today. You have only twenty four hours with which to take it, and then it is gone and lost forever. Will you fully inhabit all of today. Will you call out I've got this and do your very best to be your very best. What will you manage to make of today before it slips from your fingers and becomes the past? When someone asks you what you did yesterday, do you really want the answer to be nothing? Okay, so I have some thoughts on this excerpt. First of all, there's nothing wrong with doing nothing. Let's just stop the shame spiral here. Nothing is existing. And you were born on this planet without your knowledge. By the way. You just came out. Well, your your higher self knew, but you didn't. You being you in the present moment. And so just existing is enough. We need your light. Existing is fine. Doing nothing is fine. Okay? I don't care what all these old, decrepit philosophical, philosophical philosophers say it's okay to do nothing. Okay, so that word salad basically said that. It I think it's asking us to like, examine what we do with our day, which is good to do. And even if you do nothing, you're not doing nothing because your brain is doing something. You're thinking, you're debating your consuming. You're doing something. No one does nothing. If you do nothing, you're dead. Okay, let's just call it that. Literally doing nothing means that you're dead. Nothing's going on. Also, nothing wrong with being dead. People are dead. Okay, but we don't need these guys shaming us. Okay? There are some pillars of, like, goodness in here that we should hang on to, which is like to not let those distractions stop us from what we want to do. To not let those distractions stop us from accomplishing what we want to do, from having fun, from finding the joy and the humor in life, from taking a break from the trash fire that is this earth right now. Again, nothing against Mother Earth. She's amazing and I love her. And her frequency is raising along with us. But her inhabitants have gone a little squirrelly. Let's just be honest. And. And I don't believe you only get one shot. Let's just also take that out of the mix. You get many shots. Okay? Life is not about one shot, and you're done. It's about getting up after each shot that you shoot. I know this is going somewhere. After each shot you shoot, you get up and you shoot again. I shouldn't be saying shoot so much. Especially with what's going on outside. Okay, you get up and you fight another day. You get up and you say, today is the day I'm going to insert your goal, insert what it is you want to do. Like I wanted to make this podcast today. I'm tired. I don't have anything really to say. I mean, I have a lot of things to say. I always have a lot of things to say, but they're never organized in a podcasting way, right? Like, they need to be organized. And it also takes like time to edit out my my crunchy breaths and all of this bullshit that happens, like the cats clawing at the door and like, you know, like it takes time. And so I'm like, oh, I don't want to do it. But here I am, because I got up and I said, I'm doing this today. I also applied for a grant. I've never done that before, but I wrote out what the grant asked for, which was like my story and what I would use the money for, and it felt good to accomplish that. Like, I applied for that. And I'm looking for other grants to apply to. And I made some videos on social right that that for my community. They like to laugh. So I make these little meme energy things. If you're not following me, by the way, it's Earth Decoded, uh, FM underscore on TikTok and then Earth Decoded FM everywhere else. Well, YouTube's Earth Decoded underscore FM I some places like the dot, some won't let me have the dot, some it's just ridiculous. I chose like the worst name because there is no I mean, I love the name, but there is no like, synchronicity between socials for me because of that thing. And Earth Decoded without the dot, FM is already taken almost everywhere. So thus my issue, and thus the thing I will just have to deal with. You're just going to have to find me the old fashioned way by searching. Okay, so the name of this excerpt was Carpe diem, right? That is essentially translated seize the day. I think there is there's this pressure to make every moment productive. There's pressure to make every moment like count. And I think that that is unnecessary. I think we put enough pressure on ourselves to do things that you don't need that extra pressure to make every single day count in a way where you're like, carpe diem, you know? Because every day is not going to be that exciting. Some days are going to be repetitive as shit, and you're just going to go through the same like motions. If you get up and you feed yourself and you take a shower and you like get ready and you go to your job or you, you know, you don't screw up your kids or whatever the hell it is you're doing. You're doing it like that is carpe diem. It doesn't have to be this huge thing that you're reaching for, this pie in the sky. Let's just stop that, because all it does is put pressure on us. You know what we also do? We put pressure on ourselves to make something structured that doesn't need to be structured like this podcast. I like bend over backwards to try to figure out how to make this structured in a way where I'm delivering what people want to hear, and sometimes it's like, just talk to them, just have a conversation with them. That is what a podcast is. And because I don't have guests, which it may not always be that way, but for now, I don't have any guests. It's just me and the microphone. Right. It's me, you in the microphone. I am here and I want to make sure that you're leaving with some meat, something that you can take into your life and use. And in that way, I'm carpe diem. Like I'm trying to seize the day of every time I make a podcast, because I don't want to just sit on here and babble about something that won't give you something tangible or valuable to work with, even if it's just making you feel seen. So if you're doing nothing today, you are seen. You are loved. Do not worry about the pressure of producing every day. We are not meant to be little producers. That is the capitalist lie. That is a capitalism thing. That is not a human thing. The human thing is connection, community, creation, all the seas. Okay, so if you take anything from today's podcast, it is don't be so hard on yourself. Okay, until next time. Peace and love to you all.