I feel immense disdain for those who consider small talk about the weather to be beneath them. Oh, you think it’s stupid to connect over the observation of our shared corporeal experience in this beautiful world we all inhabit? You’re too good to remember you have a body?? Stfu
you might think everyone is unfathomably evil when you spend a lot of time online. then you go outside and meet normal, sweet, well-adjusted people, and realise the quiet truth we don’t like to say out loud: nobody who’s well-adjusted spends much time online.
i’m a full believer in doing small things for yourself to cultivate your soul without having to tell anybody especially in a day and age where people feel the need to capitalize on every aspect of themselves to create an aestheticized identity… like learning a language going on a run writing a poem practicing your craft going to a museum dancing for fun can and should give you personal fulfillment that doesn’t have to be presented through a lens or validated by an audience
“30 is so old.” you’ve only been here for three decades. in two of them, you couldn’t drink, rent a car, or even be fully responsible for yourself. please wake up. you are a FRESH flower in the garden of life
I don’t think you’ve found your person until you meet someone who will take care of things on your behalf, when you’re unable to or just because. Without question or hesitation. Because they want to see you win in life & care about you. The ones who will move mountains for you.
great friendships are built on creation, not consumption. cooking food, not ordering it. playing sport, not watching it. making music, not listening to it. experiencing life, not talking about it.
Turns out meditation actually increases your "frame per second" of observing reality, allowing you to feel less time and more presence, which means you also take in & process more data. This is also why life feels "more" and "more real" for meditators (and the opposite, the more you're dissociated, I think).
I remember this weird Russian entrepreneur+biohacker guy who wore hearing aids (to enhance his hearing - he actually had no hearing problems) so he'd be able to negotiate better - bc he'd catch people's smallest tonality changes and whatnot and knew where to push/pull, etc. Imagine that kind of a leveling up, but for your full 5 senses - and more, we shall not talk about here.
Makes you way more here, way more real, way more able, and so on. Truly the limitless pill, but better. I wonder where it starts to asymptote if at all.