Set your gearshift
These lyrics capture something about my current state of mind. I am itching to rush back into life. Please, let’s do all the things, ASAP.
Set the gearshift
to the high gear of your soul.
You’ve gotta run
like an antelope, out of control.—Run Like an Antelope, Phish
And yet. The pandemic taught (reminded?) me that I thrive at a slow pace. I feel fierce about that hard-won awareness. Must we run so fast, or can high gear look more like a slow burn?
I suspect the answer has less to do with speed and more to do with liberation. The idea, then, is to slip the knots that constrain us and move towards the good. If this is true, the antelope’s freedom from control, rather than its pace, is the important thing to mimic.
