Artemis II, the Meaning of Life, and Ask Me Anything

In this episode of Note 2 Self, Saskia opens with the thing that has completely taken over her brain lately: the Artemis II mission to the moon. The vastness of it all makes her feel both insignificant and strangely grounded. She reflects on sitting with the unknown, the anxiety of what we cannot see or define, and how sometimes it takes only 4 people seeing something to change the way the rest of us understand the world.She shares the words that stopped her from the Artemis crew's first press conference. Astronaut Christina Koch describing Earth as a lifeboat, hanging undisturbedly in the universe, and called every living thing on it a crew: a group of people inescapably, beautifully, and dutifully linked. And astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who said the three human experiences that stuck with them, and resonated with the world, were gratitude, joy, and love.Saskia then moves into her Ask Me Anything advice segment with two listener questions. First, what do you do when you have spent your whole life thinking about a crush and suddenly there is no one to think about and the silence feels both freeing and deeply strange. And second, how do you make your boyfriend's apartment feel like your home too without feeling like you are overstepping. Saskia gets into it, shares her own experience of Jeffrey moving into her apartment, and recommends a book she genuinely thinks every couple should read.Because whether you are staring at Earth from space or figuring out your half of the closet, it all comes back to the same three things: gratitude, joy, and love.