You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.
Kite flying. A lost art.
We didn't need aviation license or airspace clearance.
Dusty feet, saggy pants, shirtless with palmoil stained lips, we'd run into sunsets.
Now youngins are stuck behind screens with child obesity.
Life used to be good, man.
you’re dull and uninspired because you’re in consumption mode. you don’t create. you don’t subject yourself to the heavy labour of producing good art. no wonder you’re so irritable and quasi-human. the friction feeds your bones. and your bones are starving for it. read this then abandon reading. go write.
I believe the reason is because power changes the way we see ourselves and the people around us.
A beggar has very little to defend beyond the hope of surviving another day, so sharing comes naturally because necessity leaves little room for pride.
A king, however, carries more than a crown. He carries authority, influence, reputation, and the expectation of being obeyed. The moment another king enters the same space, those invisible territories begin to overlap. Every decision becomes a comparison, every success a competition, every disagreement a question of who truly deserves to lead. What began as coexistence will eventually become a struggle for preeminence, even when neither man intended it.
And so it follows that one, or even both, would naturally want to be far away from the other, if only to exercise the fullness of their authority without the constant reminder that another crown exists beside theirs; an authority the beggar does not possess, which explains why he is comfortable sharing the same space with fellow beggars.
Le prof m’a demandé de citer 4 dates qui ont marqué l’humanité.
J’ai répondu :
24 juin 1987
16 octobre 2004
18 décembre 2022
et peut-être le 19 juillet 2026.
Il m’a regardé puis il a compris
Bless this man!!! The more I learn about Christianity, the more I understand that it was meant to be the greatest community support and humanitarian initiative ever; it was not meant to become like idol worship. Old empires feared it because it made feudalism irrelevant.
People even blame it for the fall of the Roman Empire, and I am happy when they do. It should topple more empires when more people become more aware of the power of true Christian community.