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I know firsthand what it is to have your brain held captive by a never-abating drumbeat of sadness, anxiety, and unrest.
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There are melodies and motives you'll certainly recognise and hold in your brain when you're listening to the piece, and there's a network of connections between the main ideas in the piece that stretches across all four movements.
No one brings you casseroles and holds your hand when your brain gets sick, or calls you a survivor if you come out on the other side.
Because your one body is your one vehicle that holds your heart and your brain, that encases your soul, a soul distinct to you, a personality individual to you, and it's all tucked safely inside this one body, this one temple that you are in charge of.
Just having examples of the fact that you can be queer and Asian at the same time and hold them in your brain together.
It is perhaps only when you make a connection with the mannequin and don't feel any resistance as the sword passes through that you suddenly become aware that you aren't really holding a sword – your brain expects physical resistance.
It reminded me of times in high school when I'd learn that a teacher or student I really disliked had experienced something incredibly tragic and unfair, and then you have to make room in your brain to hold the complexity of your dislike for this person with the understanding that they're dealing with something completely beyond your own sheltered experience of the world.
Hold on to your brains.
So, before you let the doubter and realist in your brain take hold, get out a paper and a pen and do it.
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