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Life as a Lover: How to Live in Co-Creation with the Universe
On Releasing Control and Trusting Life a bit more
In a lecture with a marketing manager from Spotify many years ago, the topic was how one’s usage of Spotify was seen as the start of a relationship. Just as you wouldn’t ask someone to marry you on the first date, they wouldn’t then ask a new user to become a monthly paid user upon downloading the app.
First, you go on a few dates together, and slowly things become more serious. Eventually, you get to talk about moving in together, and, later on, kids.
Relationships are two-way streets (at least healthy relationships). It doesn’t matter what one wants if it goes against what the other one wants. Or, as a teenage ex-boyfriend of mine used to tell me -a.k.a. my very first lesson about consent, “what one person does not want, two people don’t get to do.”
Kinda obvious, and yet a hard lesson in practice. Otherwise, why would we so often experience episodes of frustration, anger, and anxiety in life?
We forget that the universe is a living organism, just like us. Except, much bigger, and we are a part of it. We forget to listen. We don’t pay attention.
Don’t get me wrong we are all powerful — but we are not the emperor/empress of the…
