you must believe you are special and then go so 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. you must wage a war daily against the ordinary outcome, until the belief you invented out of nothing in a room by yourself has been hammered into the world so many times that it stops being a claim and becomes reality.
“He was an ugly bastard this easterner. A huge big one dressed all in stinking half tanned furs and a bit of rusted chainmail, more ornament than protection. Greasy black hair, bound up here and there with silver rings, dripped with the thin rain. He had a great scar down one cheek, and another across his forehead, and the countless nicks and pitting of lesser wounds and boils as a lad, nose flattened and bent sideways like a dented spoon. His eyes were screwed up tight with effort, his yellow teeth were bared, the front two missing, his grey tongue pressed into the gap. A face that had seen war all its days. A face that had lived by sword and axe and spear and counted every day alive a bonus.
For Logan, it was almost like looking in a mirror.
They held each other as tight as a pair of bad lovers, blind to everything around them. They lumbered back and forward, lurching like feuding drunkards. They plucked and tugged, bit and gouged, gripped and tore, strained in frozen fury, blasting sour breath in each others faces. An ugly and a wearying and a fatal dance, and all the while the rain came down.”
@goodalexander Amazing that 163g of protein is considered 326% daily value meanwhile every bodybuilding thing will tell you getting 50g of protein means you’re gonna shrivel up and die from pure scrawniness
If everything is fine, then don’t change anything at all.
But when the financial system isn’t working for so many people in the UK, it needs to be updated.