The price for showing up consistently: you will be scrutinized carefully and watched more closely because you are the one showing up while others hide.
Busy people are the least creative.
Busy people maximize time for productivity.
Busy people secretly fear boredom and would feel shame to be caught without something important to do.
Genuine creativity emerges from idle time. No boredom, no inspiration.
@brianmaierhofer This really challenged my assumptions that I’ve been doing my healing all “wrong” because when I was “supposed” to be grounding myself I was instead compelled to expansion. I’ve felt like I have to fight the urge to expand because I’m supposed to stay regulated/grounded always.
The father of seven has not finished a thought in four years. he is just moving. feeding. driving. wiping. his brain is soup and his back is finished and he has no opinions about civilization he is too tired for opinions. and meanwhile civilization is growing out of him like he is dirt and he doesnt even notice because there is milk on the floor again. the childfree man has read eleven books this year about the decline of the west and he is the decline and the books are the evidence and he will understand this at fifty eight in a room that is very clean and very quiet
I do not wish for enlightenment before my time. If I allow myself to extract all the enjoyment I possibly can from this illusion, I suspect I’ll rest that much more deeply in my bliss.
Develop a mast-cell-mediated immune disorder (NOT autoimmune) which presents a hyper-reactive innate immune profile. Your system will time travel to the future and kill the virus before it gets to you. Then, dump you in depression and lethargy
A gift to my young self: dear Hannible, we finally made it half way around the globe to take a picture with our childhood hero, William Wilberforce.
In 2007, I purchased Eric Metaxas’ “Amazing Grace” hot off the press. Read it about 6x that year. Cover-to-cover, flip, repeat.
Not a man, but this has 100% been my experience. Been evaluated many times and never been diagnosed mentally ill. The only times I truly wanted to unsubscribe were the moments when I realized I was backed into some version of my life that was unviable.
Dr K: "Most of the suicidal men that I work with - their mind isn't malfunctioning - they genuinely have a life that is no longer worth living"
damn :/
@MontanMedia It’s not ur banner. Don’t be afraid to show ur face, or get a cool AI generated persona. Two dots and a line is what our brains are hardwired to look for.