once u stop fantasizing about an ideal version of urself & start working towards it by setting ur alarm clock earlier, working out, reading & stop procrastinating you'll realise that it was so easy all along. ur ideal self will only ever exist in ur mind until u make the decision
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Heyโฆ these past few days, Epstein's files dropped and the world is exploding with this horrifying child exploitation and elite network stuffโit's unbelievable, right? ๐ข
But there's similar darkness happening right here in Japan, and when I try to talk about it, so many people just go "that's not our problem" and tune outโฆ it really hurts.
The patterns are scarily close:
- Lonely, clueless kids get approached by these "kind, caring adults" who act all sympathetic.
- Sweet promises of money, drugs, easy cash โ debt trap, control, addiction.
- Ends up in disappearance, missing forever, or trapped in places no one can find them.๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ
Epstein was the international elite version.
Here it's shinjuku โ host debt โ overseas "dekasegi" brokers โ vanishing in Southeast Asia or Dubai.
Not exactly the same, but the structure is insanely similar: scary overseas brokers lurking nearby, luring with sweet words, then trapping them in unknown hell.
Even Epstein's victimsโmany were teenage girls lured with "earn $200 just for a massage" or "modeling/career opportunities" (Virginia Giuffre got pulled in at Mar-a-Lago with promises of travel & good money, Haley Robson was told "massage a billionaire for cash"โPOLITICO 2019, NYT 2019, BBC 2021, court docs).
And people always assume girls in Japan's sex industry are just "working to pay off host club debts for fun" โ but that's not true for so many. ๐ข๐ธ๐ธ อ อ
Japan's not really feeling like a "first-world" country anymoreโฆ crazy yen depreciation, jobs barely pay enough to live, so tons of girls are doing sex work just to survive.
Some are even serious students trying to pay back university scholarshipsโฆ they're not all "spoiled party girls." Assuming it's all self-inflicted fun money is a huge mistake.๐
If the world is shocked by Epstein and says "unbelievable," then Japan's cases are just as unbelievableโyet they get brushed off as "Asian local problem" or ignored because of racial bias.
But it's NOT unrelated. Global crime networks connect, and the way they target vulnerable kids is the same no matter race or nationality.
Thinking "this doesn't concern us" is a huge red flagโฆ it makes people overconfident, and the darkness is right there, waiting to swallow anyone who gets too close.
Sighโฆ I'm pouring my heart out trying to get this across, and it hurts so much when it doesn't reach people ๐ข
But if even one person listensโฆ please, just be careful. Stay safe ๐ค
@OsmanZtheGooner We say City drew games extending gaps for us but then we go and do the same and keep them in the race, amazing scenes from us icl๐๐ผ
@EBL2017 Tbh I'm not a analyst or what but every time arsenal drop points it's to a team that uses a similar tactic of being compact and sitting back always, don't we need to focus on a method of breaking that already. These teams know the blueprint and work every time against us
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A good way tell if weโre in love with a person or a fantasy of that person is the degree to which we feel compassion for them.
That is, the degree to which we care about the things *they* care about.
If weโre mostly in love with a fantasy, weโll usually care less about the concerns of our partner that donโt relate to our fantasy of them.
We might care about how much they enjoy having sex with us, or how in love with us, or how strong our connection is.
Because those things feed into the fantasy.
But weโll probably spend less time thinking about their personal concerns that donโt relate to or center us.
Fantasies, after all, are there to gratify us, not for us to serve.
Whereas if weโre in love with the actual person, weโll likely spend a lot more internal and external energy on celebrating their joys, commiserating their sufferings and supporting them in their flourishing.
Even the little mundane and unglamorous trials and successes that make up their day to day.
Developing these compassionate qualities towards them not only indicates true love but also helps cultivate deeper love.
Practicing compassion and sympathetic joy for those closest to us helps us see them more clearly and care more about what they care about.
It also makes it easier to communicate with and meet the needs of our partner.
Because weโre paying attention to what they actually care about.
Perhaps counter-intuitively, it also allows us to develop stronger boundaries.
By more clearly seeing our lover, we can more cleanly separate them from our fantasy of them, which demerges them from projections that actually belong to us.
Romantic love and compassionate love may feel like different kinds of love.
But actually the latter is deeply supportive of the former, and the deepest forms of the former start to look increasingly like the latter.