WxrldMood

Art by Susi Schuele

It’s been a full year since WørldMood went live, and f***, what a year it’s been..
We’ve witnessed riots, lockdowns, hysteria, and numerous protests throughout the globe.

All I ever hear about are hypocrisies and crises, and people pointing fingers..

Personally, I love to put on my tin hat as much as the next guy, but I don’t have the time to get caught up in media headlines and controversies. At the end of the day, my main focuses are building my foundations & financial security, and no one else is putting in the effort to bring this vision to Life. I can’t afford to be so invested in the dramas & social conflicts. I have plenty on my plate as it is, so no need to get caught in the tribulations of the outside world, I’ve got my own to contend with.
Therefore I don’t watch the news, ‘cause i don’t believe I’m missing out on much. I hardly follow any of the major networks, only close enough to measure if my life is in any real danger, and if my dreams are still in tact.
Maybe it’s not the best tactic, but if I’m being real, watching the news never helped me cope.. so I keep my attention on better things.

The last 12 months have presented me with all kinds of new challenges. Debt, reconnecting & reconciling, f***** moving, coordinating, adulting, etc. Damn, there’s been a lot of adjustments I’ve had to make. I feel I’ve learned & grown quite a bit in the last year. That’s something to be proud of. I’ve solved many problems that have come my way, and I’ve gained confidence from those experiences.
On top of all that, I’ve also gained more problems.. Go figure.

Throughout the recent months, I’ve been so busy with everything I’m trying to orchestrate that I haven’t been consistently putting in the work to build WørldMood as a brand and deliver its message at the scale I had envisioned. I’ve been frustrated not knowing how to share all the things I’ve had to work through in a way that helps others relate.. and because I’ve chosen to neglect the W/M content & outreach in order to focus my energies elsewhere, I‘d begun to view myself as having lost touch with the vision that once motivated me to be so much better. So this is me checking in, and promising to check-in more, again..

Truthfully, I don’t know why I don’t! Because whenever I get the chance to reflect on what I’ve created thus far, I’m always reminded of the roots of my work, and in this weird way that encourages me, and it grounds me. When I come back to the source - the original pieces of WørldMood, I become flooded with ideas & the inspiration to continue — to continue inspiring the world in which I live to further connect, stretch, and give — and to be the voice that I wish I had heard more of sooner.

Wørldmood still stands at the intersection of self expression & mental health.
The intention is to help the current & future generations gather the self-awareness & esteem that is needed to transcend our respective limitations.

The message is still, and will be for many generations to come, relevant & applicable regardless of one’s background, class, or volition. For those who are open to it, I ask you to take from it what you need, take what you want and put it towards your growth & your creativity. When all else fails, make the promise to stay creative! After all Life is art, and this one is what you make it. So own what you do, and do it with heart. Never dwell on what you cant change, don’t take shit so personal, and don’t trip over the uncertainties. Let go & behold!
Come on, is it really just too hard to stay curious?

Once again, I’m saying nothing new. The message remains the same, yet I will continue to find new ways to repeat it in hopes to reach more of those who are where I once was, and those who need it most.

I know just how hard it can be to stay curious, at the same time Im constantly telling myself that it shouldn’t, but I still remember just how real the pressure can feel. I think back to before I had tuned in to where the f*** I was at, when I was dragging my feet through my “quarter-life crisis” (which really was more of a season of indecision that had perverted into an identity crisis), before I had decided what to give, when I was just looking for purpose and direction, I’d sit alone and “existentialize” in grandiosity, and in terror; philosophizing about what the point of it all was, and what we really wanted, at scale - as a collective.
I was looking for this “unifying” purpose, right, but I was badly in need of some real therapy, sense of community, and belonging. It’s hard to find, much less reach out and motivate when you’re always feeling strange & out of touch.

Though we live in an age of incredible global connection, we still heavily lack the context that frames our sense of purpose. All anyone has ever done is done their best to feel free. F***, it’s all we can do, but I believe that there’s something slightly deeper coming to the surface. I believe that the coming generations will widely adopt the responsibility to rediscover & reconnect with that context, and to reintegrate it into a greater & more inclusive culture & spirit..

Hear me out, there’s more than a thousand ways to think about what separates our species from the rest of the creatures we coexist with. It’s the level of intellect, it’s the use of tools, it’s the propensity to art, it is our ability to communicate, our capacity to cooperate, and our altruistic tendencies. But us humans, we’re often plagued with amnesia, we get complacent, and lose sight of what we’re living for. In a very real sense, collectively we are lost; we’ve lost touch with our history, and our public education systems can hardly help anyone contextualize their Life in relation to the real wørld. So how then are we supposed to know, or even begin to tune into who we are with any sense of depth & unity?

It seems like sometimes all we can do is trace our scars, and live to embrace them.

I try not to sound too woo-woo with the stuff I put out under WørldMood because I feel like people check out when they hear or read something that feels like it’s trying too hard to be inspirational. But I’ve had a revelation recently that really resonated with me, and I see no harm in sharing this one here now.
It is the revelation that our communion is at the depths of our human nature, and through our participation within it is where we intuit it’s meaning and the Spirit of the powers that be, and we remember that that spirit resides within every one of us. — Don’t ever forget it, whatever we become will always have limitations, but our work is never done, not until there’s nothing left to give.

Check in!
Decide what to give.

Bless,

— T