Tori Kelly describes feeling caught between being too alive to die and too dead to live. Becoming a parent forced her into heightened awareness, where daily decisions suddenly carried real weight instead of happening on autopilot.
They are too alive to die and too dead to live.
It's like you're in this in-between kind of blah.
Do you ever feel like your life is on automatic pilot? Like you're just—
That's what I want to avoid. I don't feel that way now, especially I think by me having a baby, it kind of has like forced me to be present, even though of course I want to be present, but I—
The stakes are higher.
Yeah, the stakes are much higher. It's not just, oh, let me try to be present so I can be like a better person. It's like, No, now I'm responsible for, you know, this baby.
