#28: SoiL Thornton
"I think many things I do have just been this way forever."
SoiL is an artist and the mastermind behind Choosing Suitor Intervention.
Health Gossip with SoiL
Capricorn/Taurus/Leo
Brooklyn, NY
What does health, or being healthy, mean to you?
I try to be healthy as simply and efficiently as possible, and see health as something that allows me to play and experience life more deeply. This also means that if I eat healthy generally, then it’s okay to sometimes eat lots of fries and a cheeseburger and a whole pint of ice cream. That’s the fun reward.
I think a lot of my health lately has been overshadowed by my financial situation, so more and more I think about the privilege of knowledge one must have in order to know how to be healthy with very little money. Of course, outside circumstances also come into this discussion; I have lots of medical stuff that I need to take care of that people don't know about, or can’t experience with me daily, but I don't have the means to handle currently. Those things affect my overall health, whether it be in my mental or physical functioning or grounding. So I guess there’s the idea of where I want to be and what I wish I had the ability to do, versus doing what I can under the current circumstances and trying to find consistency within that.
Finding the consistent foundational practices that can be managed in the most diverse range of contexts is essentially health to me.
How would you describe your current lifestyle?
I just asked myself what does lifestyle mean... I think many things I do have just been this way forever.
What new people notice about me is that I don't drink or take drugs. That spawned from being straightedge in high school and moved to being mostly apathetic to using substances, and also being very interested in alternative ways of living in society. I guess the alternative ways of living thing is very much a part of my whole being and not in the sense of doing things just to be different, but instead asking myself lots of questions and trying to understand what it is that I want to do or experience, and how does that effect x,y,z. This could be how I choose to eat, exercise, dress… but more importantly, how do I speak to people and carry myself in the world?