rude, dismissive: "touch grass"
enigmatic, affirming: "remember that you are a creature in a world"
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in reply to @vectorpoem's post:
The message the alternate phrase is conveying reminds me of Mary Oliver's poem Wild Geese, which is genuinely one of my favorite poems.
I've started referring to myself as a "creature" because of this post