I have a close friend who used to post very old pictures of me on my birthdays. I know it wasn’t out of malice; probably just to show how far we’ve come, but it didn't sit well with me, so I had to tell him. It’s not that I’m ashamed of my past, but come on, I have newer, better-looking photos now. I’ve walked that path, and it belongs in the past. I’ve evolved.
Jim Iyke said something that applies perfectly here: avoid people who can’t see you beyond what they used to know about you, who still look at you through the same lens as ten years ago, regardless of how much you’ve achieved. That’s disrespect, and it’s being taken for granted.
i’m convinced that creativity is the elixir of life. not ambition. not productivity. but the simple act of making. the devotion to beauty. the refusal to go numb.
RECOVER FASTER THAN EVERYONE
Lose the day. Come back at night. Miss the gym. Go tomorrow. Waste a week. Win the next one. Get embarrassed. Stay visible. Get rejected. Try again. Fall behind. Move anyway. Stop turning every mistake into a new identity. Stop making failure mean more than it does. Stop disappearing every time life proves you’re still human. The men who win aren’t perfect. They just don’t stay gone.
The cheat code is simple.
Become impossible to keep down.
@Arakunrin_emma You've said nothing about what's in it for the child? Your entire argument rests on a selfish desire for meaning and the strange, unproven notion that gaining strength through suffering is a superior experience to oblivion.
Would strength be important in a perfect world?
Whatever you create inherits the power to make you or unmake you.
We grant our creations permission and authority over us.
If you create chaos, that same chaos will come to haunt you once it's matured and grown.
If you create calm, you will live to see it nourish your spirit.
How to tell if you've found your "thing"
- You instantly absorb anything you read on the subject
- You stay up late working on it (without effort)
- You can perform better on it at 60% than others at 100%
- It doesn't drain you, but rather gives you energy
- You end up doing it without being prompted
Play to you, work to others. Don't waste your time dedicating yourself to something you're bad at. Work hard at games you're uniquely suited to win. You can and should take every unfair advantage you have access to
“It will happen to all of us, that at some point you get tapped on the shoulder and told, not just that the party is over, but slightly worse: the party’s going on and you have to leave.”
— Christopher Hitchens