Hey Hana, I'm curious to know what's your view on the fact we are technically immortal with shifting? I've seen mixed opinions about it, some see it as a freeing beautiful thing, and for others I've seen it cause them anxiety. I feel if people overthink it it can definitely get to their head. How do you feel about it?
i definitely get why the idea of “immortality” through shifting can feel overwhelming and messes with people’s sense of purpose and value.
if you sit with it long enough, it can turn into that quiet kind of nihilism that burrows deep into your chest. like… if there’s no real end, then what gives anything weight? what makes moments special if they’re not limited?
because we’ve always been taught that time is what makes things matter. that things are precious because they don’t last.
so when you remove that, it can feel like everything flattens. like nothing really holds meaning or worth anymore.
and i’ve felt that too. that brief moment where everything feels a little too open, a little too endless.
but for me, it doesn’t stay there.
because the more i sit with it, the more it starts to feel… beautiful instead of empty.
the idea that i can exist across so many realities, live so many lives, meet so many versions of people, and feel things over and over again in different ways.
that i don’t have to say permanent goodbyes unless i choose to.
that i can return, revisit, relive, and reconnect any time i choose to.
there’s something so so comforting in that possibility.
and i think the key thing for me, is always just remembering that shifting is all about choice.
if everything is available, then that also means that nothing is being forced on you, not even eternity.
you can choose to experience time in a linear way. you can choose to let things feel temporary. you can choose to live a life where endings still exist and still mean something.
you can choose to let things matter.
so that idea of “nothing matters” kind of shifted for me since that realisation, because if nothing inherently matters, then meaning isn’t gone, it’s just not assigned for you anymore.
it becomes something you give.
and that makes it feel even more personal, even more intentional.
so instead of it feeling like everything is meaningless, it feels like everything is open, like meaning isn’t something dictated by time running out.
it’s something created by you, moment by moment, simply because you care.
i’m no longer holding onto things because i’m afraid to lose them, but because i want to.