The Emotionally Regulated Person’s Guide to Lifting Perfectly

She will claw at your chunk, blindly pulling it back into herself, with the massive casual strength of her invisible forces.

You are playing a game. Your opponent is deep, deep beneath your feet, but you are closely connected to it, down to the very dust your body is formed from- there was a time when you were one and the same, twirling in and out of each other as planetesimal dust clouds.  

The object of the game is to grab a piece of the crust of your home world, and lift it, bring it up and in, as close as you can to your heart and your head.

She will claw at your chunk, blindly pulling it back into herself, with the massive casual strength of her invisible forces.

She will win every time, but do not let that stop you. The goal of the game is to play. 

Everyday, both of you pull, on either side of that awesome river of hot mantle separating core from crust. Then you rest, and pull again.

The moment to focus on is the brief moment before gravity roars, and the metal is on your heart, or above your head. In that moment, time slows, and you both win.