An underrated cheat code in life is knowing that you have the ability to hit reset and reinvent yourself at any moment. Most people can't take this step because they cannot let go of their old identity.

the best people i know doubt themselves every day, are paranoid everyone's coming for them, yet certain they're going to win all at the same time

my life got significantly better when i found my creative outlet, physical pursuit, and intellectual endeavour

Normalize learning from every philosophy. Stoicism for resilience. Buddhism for detachment. Taoism for flow. Existentialism for responsibility. Confucianism for relationships. Hindu philosophy for the nature of self. Sufism for love and surrender. Different lenses. Same curiosity. Learn from all of them. This account is for you.

having a touch of the 'tism had a good run, but that era is rapidly coming to an end

why not you? you are allowed to believe that your life could become something you can barely comprehend from where you’re standing today. you are allowed to take that belief seriously enough to build your days around it, even when the evidence hasn’t caught up yet. you dont know what you could become five years from now - and that’s exactly the point.

The deepest women love what you haven't become yet. they can smell the potential on you like an animal scenting prey, and something in them wants to chase it out of hiding. they want to draw out the shadowed parts of you, pulling them into the light with their own hands, and watching your face as they do it. it's love of the process, love of being the chisel god slid across your surface to reveal the form trapped inside the marble. they are michelangelo and you are just the stone they chose for their next masterpiece