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Kind of overwhelmed. There's this weird energy everywhere that feels...threatening? Like the humming electricity in a live wire, or a calm before the storm kind of atmosphere, maybe. I can't quite name it, but I feel it in the undertones of my daily life, and at the end of the day when I am alone and it is finally soft and quiet, I still feel it. Bleeding through the walls and seeping into the empty spaces, pervasive and unsettling. I'm not sure what's changed, but I can't shake this feeling of unease. I find myself asking, "What's wrong?", only to hear myself say "What isn't?"
there's a boat floating down the river that we're stuck in, and we're approaching a massive waterfall
Kind of like that. I get that feeling too. I would describe it more along the lines of a tree slowly being engulfed by flood waters; subtle yet devastating for the ones devoid of oxygen for too long. It is a strange sensation.