01/07/2025
I am ok - you are ok …
As I am not an exception … I struggled with the ok-ok when I came across “the Harris book”.
I did not feel or think that everything was ok, neither with me or with others. Especially not in young adulthood.
There is something really healthy in stating that things are not ok as they are, otherwise we would not change or change things.
In TA we use the concept to talk about overarching life positions. Or underlying assumptions about ourselves and the world.
What we could make more distinct is that we also have feelings of “nothing changes if I do not change”. Or we participate in marches, parades or demonstrations to speak our mind that we think that the ideas others have about us are not ok.
The illustration is from the artist and filmmaker Mike Mills and was the movie promo poster to “Thumbsucker” (2005). That is a movie about a young man and the struggle with being ok - available via streaming services.