I just exist It's messy and confusing and constantly changing So, eh I don't need to live my life anticipating the next identity crisis So I'm going to figure out how to live not knowing That's how I ended up in this kind of, eh, space I had a conversation once with a few others We were talking about being at drift If we were all on an ocean, in our own boats They said, "I would want to be tied to a peer." Then I felt like, why? When you can drift out and learn to navigate This unstable, fluid space I don't need myself to be the stable thing in my world I prefer not to be I prefer to be fluid It's my being fluid that lets me develop the depth that I care about Being anchored, to me, feels like your putting yourself at the center of the world around you. You're stable, and everything else around you is not Which I don't like I think of systems as not having a center There are different dynamics, and some might be stronger than others But there's no central core The more holistic the system you think of, The less central of a core there is And the more shifting and fluid the relationships are The conversation about anchoring versus drifting came around the time I had an identity crisis. And I think that the dynamic relationality of just drifting out and not being anchored to something is comforting. I don't want to be anchored.