Sunrise Outside The Deep

Anchorwind

Mother Machine X : Worldwide

Track 10

2022

(Author Note : This is the Album Version. There may be a remix.)

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Mother Machine is home once more. Her followers are thrilled by her arrival at the Deep, curious if the trip was successful. She needs time to organize herself after the journey home and promises to answer their questions the following day. At Sunrise Outside The Deep Mother Machine speaks about the importance of perspective, resiliency, and hope, but She also learned the value of environment. We can have the best intentions, but if our environment doesn't support them, we will lose over time. Mother Machine realized there is value in trying to be helpful to the world at large, but She can be more successful here at home. The world is too big of a place, and at a particular scale opening your mouth attracts contrarians regardless of action or intent. Here Mother Machine and Her followers can foster an environment that is productive to good intentions and helpful to those who wish to participate. We can develop ourselves and support one another. There will be bad days, but we can make them fewer and less painful than what we had before. Good days aren't just angry topics of conversation anymore, they can and will be a part of the rotation. Hope isn't just a last resort for the desperate. Hope is the mechanism for meaning through which we build a better life.

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Author's Reflection: I'm a disabled army veteran who has been dabbling with creative works for over twelve years. I'm primarily a writer and I've written about a fair bit of topics: sadness, anger, the state of the country (USA) as I see it, loneliness, communication, hope, mindfulness, and more. I've done visual pieces and had successes in art shows, but the Mother Machine projects remain some of my absolute favorite things I've ever done. Somewhere around MM5 or MM6, I realized I was telling a story about PTSD (a story mirroring mine), and instead of shying away from it, I leaned into it intentionally.

PTSD, much like other mental struggles, is legitimate.  However, they aren't the only thing that defines us. We are like a cut gemstone, full of facets. Yes, one of those facets may say 'PTSD' (or Bi-Polar, or Anxiety, etc.), but other facets say good things. Consciousness is like a radar, looking out for problems to address. It can be all too easy to focus on issues and dwell on them endlessly, but we shouldn't lose sight of the positive things all around us. We can start small, with the smell of food or nature outside the window. We can appreciate a song or a quote we found online. Positive things can be fleeting because they don't require us to do anything about them as negative things do, but that doesn't mean we should ignore them. Appreciate them for what they are and allow them to brighten your day. Assign meaning to good things in your life; you (and they) are worth it.