The good things that happened to you when you believed in a supernatural entity, if you had believed in yourself instead, you’d begin to see yourself as supernatural
Every broke man keeps invisible receipts. Years later, they still balance perfectly. He remembers who stopped answering, who made him feel small, who suddenly became too busy, and who only respected him when he could provide. Money may return, but access never does. Some debts are not repaid with revenge they’re settled with distance.
Kobe Bryant woke up at 4AM for 20 years. Not because he loved mornings but because he loved winning more than he loved sleep. Dear Brother, Discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want now.
High-standard people are the most isolated. They barely have friends. They don’t play about people treating them weirdly. Once they see the slightest sign of envy, resentment, competitiveness or insecurity, their energy shifts permanently. They don’t argue. They quietly exclude.
Intelligent people struggle with addiction. Their minds need more. More depth. More to disappear into. They have obsessions nobody around them shares. Philosophy. Literature. Astronomy. Documentaries. Quantum physics. Dostoevsky. Kant. Books, music, films, ideas they've gone so deep into that ordinary conversation starts to feel like small talk. And small talk feels like suffocation. So... they drink. Work until 2 am. Doomscroll until they feel nothing. Because there is a gap between who you are and the conversations available to you. And sometimes, that gap becomes unbearable. And it's one of the loneliest places a person can live.