Hovering Sombrero: You're Never Just a Hat
What can a floating hat teach us about self-worth? A personal essay on Hovering Sombrero by They Might Be Giants, mental spirals, and the art of not believing everything your brain tells you.
A lot of my life, I’ve felt disconnected from people and my surroundings.
Like I’m observing everything but not participating. Or maybe I am trying to participate, but there’s this underlying feeling that I don’t quite belong in it.
My mind has a narrator that contextualizes everything as rejection. It fills in gaps that don’t exist. It rewrites neutral m…
