sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.
Not dying.
Just logging off.
Getting a job no one cares about.
Growing tomatoes.
Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.
Not as a failure.
But as a kind of freedom.
You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
Be bored more often.
Go for long walks. Meditate. Journal your thoughts. Read new books. Spend time alone without devices. You would get to understand yourself a lot much better. Your brain gets the best ideas when it is left to wander.
In those quiet moments, you'll uncover clarity and inspiration that can't be found in constant stimulation.
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Best mental reset I’ve learned:
If your mind is loud — Write.
If your mind is empty — Read.
If your mind is racing — Walk.
If your mind is tired — Sleep.
If your mind is sharp — Build.
Most problems are just mismatched energy. Get the inputs right, the rest follows.
Congratulations from England, decent America! The tawdry politics of recent years have stained conceptions of your country very badly but this win offers the chance for recovery. The world needs the best of you. But watch out for the lout on the golf course..
The lout on the golf course is supported by approximately half of this country. None of that half is likely to appear here in HCR’s Comments.
My father is one of them. He grew up in Nazi Germany and never really change from his early childhood social conditioning. Most of the warehouse workers and truck drivers I meet on the job are also in the Trumpster Republican conservative camp. It’s an illness of lack of vision, an illness of inability to see beneath the surface.
Our job is learn how we can show them how to regain that vision, help them understand that supporting programs that help EVERYONE is the best way to help themselves, and to recognize that a world without daily threats and insults is a better world for all of us.
Finding a way to overcome the hatred, lies, and fear without insulting people like your father is the only way we can reunite America again.
Good luck with your farher.
