Category: mental health
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Go Out There and Make a Fool of Yourself
I know, it sounds like terrible advice. Like something your biggest hater would whisper under their breath. But what if it is actually the key to everything you have been too nervous to start?
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What Is the Cost of Our Enjoyment?
Not the price on the ticket. Not the subscription fee. Not the jersey or the concert seat or the streaming service. The real cost.
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Everything falls apart the moment you stop participating.
Money. Time. Status. Power. None of it exists without collective participation, yet the moment you step back and actually look, the illusion starts cracking.
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It’s the Phones
We bend our necks without thinking. We scroll without choosing. We absorb other people’s thoughts so often that we forget how to hear our own. And then we wonder why we feel disconnected, anxious, numb, or constantly behind in a race we never signed up for. I am not anti technology. I am anti unconscious…
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I don’t take constructive criticism from anyone who hasn’t constructed shit.
The loudest critics are usually the ones who never entered the arena. I’ve watched too many talented people shrink because they listened to opinions that came from fear instead of experience. Confidence is built, not gifted. And belief starts within long before the world reflects it back
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I won’t be here forever, and neither will you!
It’s 12:36am and I’m up, which probably means you are too. This is your wake up call, not the gentle kind, but the one that reminds you who the fuck you are. You won’t be here forever, and neither will I, so waiting for the perfect moment is just another way of choosing nothing. Whatever…
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It’s the Internet. It’s Supposed to Be Fake.
The internet is not a real place, yet we have allowed it to define our emotions, our worth, and our sense of reality. It was designed to provoke feeling, not truth. Every image, post, and headline exists to trigger something inside you, whether that is desire, envy, fear, or hope. Most people live inside this…
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The Year of the Horse
The Year of the Horse is not about waiting for the perfect moment. It is about creating motion when clarity refuses to show up. I have learned that momentum does not always arrive loud or obvious. Sometimes it shows up quietly at midnight, in unfinished ideas, in choosing to show up anyway. Courage, for me,…
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When You Don’t Respond How They Rehearsed
There is a quiet power in responding differently than expected. It appears in moments of tension, when someone approaches you already holding a script, your tone predicted, your words prewritten, your reaction safely contained. They believe they know how the scene will unfold. And then it doesn’t.
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You can only eat by reheating my nachos.
When you are the blueprint, imitation is inevitable. Some people are inspired, others are hungry for a shortcut, but either way your existence feeds them.