hard to beat a person who wholeheartedly believes they’re built different. almost arrogant in the assumption that whatever life puts in front of them can eventually be figured out. and what a powerful thing to believe about yourself, that you can be thrown into circumstances you have no idea how to navigate and still be completely convinced you’ll find your way through.
I yearn for competence. I want to be a competent adult. Not just in work or on my niché interests but life in general. To know how to fix stuff, to know a guy who knows a guy, to have incredible soft skills. It is a consummation devoutly to be wished.
You must believe you are special. Then go so f*cking hard, for so long, with such violent refusal to accept any other ending, that reality itself starts running out of ways to tell you no. Wage a daily war against the ordinary outcome until the belief you invented from nothing, alone in a room, has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.
life is going to be ridiculous whether you like it or not. might as well fall in love with the whole damn experience - have some fun with it. I hope you never get so caught up in how it’s supposed to go that you forget how much fun it is to find out
It has to work out… because i want spontaneous trips, slow mornings, a beautiful home, time for my hobbies, and a life that doesn't revolve around weekends.
the pursuit is already difficult enough. why waste a single ounce of your precious energy entertaining the possibility of defeat? every bit of your mind should be consumed by finding a way to make what you believe in a reality. there is too much to accomplish to spend your life questioning whether you can.
if you can feel it in your bones that you are meant for more, you no longer have the luxury of standing still. what else are you going to do with the time? relax? the world is entirely indifferent to your dreams and no one is going to build the reality for you. so put your head down and chase the life you actually want with absolute, unapologetic violence.
Nothing in life is out of reach. You have the innate ability to make anything happen, so choose to make the best possible outcome a reality. An unbreakable self belief is something nobody can take away from you. You are in the drivers seat, so hit the gas and don’t stop.
I like quiet people. Smart as fuck. Zero show-off. No performance. No drama. Just a calm vibe. Who aren't loud just to be noticed. Who read deep books. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche. Who can sit through a 2-hour documentary about bees and aliens and octopuses and genuinely enjoy it. They find beauty in the ordinary things. Think deeply. Talk less, understand more. The ones who stay low-key and private in a world obsessed with being "seen". These are my people.
the older you get, the more you realize luck is mostly exposure, if you sit in the same place, have the same routine, talk to the same person, nothing new really happens, you have to engage the world to win, travel more. talk to people.
Which is why I am an advocate for men leaving.
Your low effort girlfriend isn't suddenly going to wake up tomorrow a changed person.
There's someone out there for you, and it's not her.🫵🏾
Maybe the most romantic thing someone can give you isn't butterflies, it's certainty. Knowing a difficult conversation won't make them leave, their affection won't vanish with a bad mood, knowing you don't have to perform to be loved.