If you say “no” to the hype today, you’ll have room for what’s important tomorrow. If you stop measuring your days by what you finished, you’ll start measuring them by how you felt. If you stop glorifying the grind, you’ll finally hear the quiet hum of your own creativity. Efficiency is just a performance for an economy that doesn’t love you.
Even after all the pain and hardships endured, I’ll never give up on love. Love is and has always been the point of life. We are made in the image and likeness of love.
If you stop looking for permission from your superiors, you’ll find it in your own intuition. If you stop comparing your pace to others’ highlights, you’ll find a rhythm that actually sustains you. If you stop trying to “fit in” with the crowd, you’ll realize you were always meant to stand apart. Stop performing in rooms you weren’t meant to stay in.
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Modern society is designed to keep you looking upward at a ceiling you didn’t build. It wants you anxious, striving, and perpetually “almost there” The most radical thing you can do today is look inward and realize you’ve already arrived.
Disappoint the system. Choose your own peace.
It is a radical act to say “I have enough” in a world that insists you are “almost there”
Before you get back into the dating world, I am begging you to regulate your nervous system and to cleanse your mind from romantic content. A dysregulated and socially influenced you is a recipe for disaster; before you know it, you end up chasing after people you would never have even considered as appropriate mates, allowing them to mistreat you because your body and subconscious are making you rush into a situation that it has been programmed to want at all costs. But when the price is your physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, then the cost will always be too high.
A regulated you stops, assesses the other person with an objective and clear mind, studies carefully how they are showing up in your life without making fantasies of who they could be or you wish they would be in your head and is more successful in her relationships and in life in general.
