I am juggling all the balls of okayness: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, existential.
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I think this is also true of the elusive state of "okayness" in general.
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The therapist said everyone posting on social media is 'projecting okayness' which may lead to problems asking others for help.
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For me, "okayness" is less about an outwardly-imposed expectation of what my life should look like and more a question of experience.
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I used to think that okayness was a place, some solid state I would reach and that within it there would be no fluctuations.
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I sometimes push myself to perform society's definition of "okayness," which only creates anxiety in terms of the discrepancy between my insides and my outsides.
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It seems that the more I try to find some permanent state of okayness, to unify all my fragments into some kind of comprehensible (or even branded) whole, the less okay I feel.
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This voice comes from a place of self-protection, not self-hatred, and has often led me to what I imagine self-love "should" feel like: short-lived bliss, a very temporary state of okayness.
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Six Feet Under, meanwhile, reaches a place where the characters are mostly okay, and the flash-forwards to their deaths in its finale indicate that, for the most part, they stayed in that place of okayness.
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If you're just well enough to drag yourself to your place of employment (your thoughts still a sound cloud of distress, but the volume on low), or if your depression takes the form more of an itchy sweater than a leaden dentist's apron (which is to say, anxiety), you are forever and always performing your okayness.
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And some also pointed out that Arya's life experiences up to this point have undoubtedly left her traumatized, noting that it's not necessarily great for her to be having sex in that state: she's not OKAY, about her body or control or intimacy, but the ep appeared to gloss the not-okayness of the sex Meanwhile, plenty of people observed that a lot of the hysteria over Arya having sex smacked of hypocrisy and sexism.
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