The Second Act

How startlingly cheap it is to change one’s body. Yeah, yeah, surgeries are expensive and you need the ability to take time off to heal – I get it. But, still. A few weeks? A few thousand to spend the rest of your life a little more confident, a little less anxious…worth it.

On the other hand, it’s so expensive (in a sort of vague way) to change the inside. There’s no quantifying scale for overcoming fears and trauma. But there are the getaways. The retreats and shadow journaling. DMT and ayahuasca journeys. The complex hierarchy of who is healed enough to heal who as we’re all sizing each other up by measures pieced together from the remnants of the humanity before us that we are so just sure had it all figured out.