Mamba Out 🐍
Honestly, I spent way too long on this piece, made quite a bit of mistakes, shed a few tears, and was super indecisive, but I learned a lot, and pushed through. (Process video in thread.)
my therapist told me this and it hit me: “healing is so hard because it is a constant battle between your inner child who is scared and just wants safety.... your inner teenager who is angry and just wants justice.... and your current self-who is tired and just wants peace."
Get out of your room.
Go to a coffee shop. Rent somewhere for the weekend. Sit in a park. Walk through a part of the city you've never been to. Go anywhere that isn't the same four walls you've been staring at for months.
Your environment shapes your thinking more than you realise. Same room, same thoughts. New space, new clarity.
The number of ideas that hit when you change location will make you wonder why you stayed stuck in one place for so long.
If you’re in the 25-35 bracket, you’ll notice this:
- Some friends are married to their soulmates.
- Others are quietly googling "how to file for divorce."
- Some are hitting a 5 AM personal best in the gym.
- Others are battling burnout and anxiety.
- Some are meditating, reading, and healing.
- Others are escaping reality with cheap dopamine.
This decade is messy. It’s brutal. It’s beautiful.
There is no rulebook. There is no "perfect" pace.
Move at your own speed. Your timeline isn’t broken - it’s yours.
Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.
A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.
Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.
So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.
The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.
The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.
Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.
Dating in your 30s teaches you that chemistry is easy to find, but emotional maturity, consistency, and accountability are rare. Anyone can create a spark, but not everyone knows how to maintain something real.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but start living. The days are flying by, and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress. Enjoy what you can. walks, sunsets, laughter.
Joy doesn't have to be expensive.
I know this has been said a million times in a million different ways, but it genuinely is so FUCKING insane that we are now fully aware our government is filled with child trafficker murderer rapist pedophiles and we all just wake up in the morning and go to work and pay our bills and are filing our taxes to pay a government full of fucking child trafficker murder rapist pedophiles. Every day I feel like I’m inching closer to a full manic episode and I’m not being dramatic or funny this shit is not okay or normal what the fuck are we even doing anymore bro
February 06, 2026
Stop worrying about how it will happen. Just know that it will. Every time you stress about the outcome, you block the flow. But when you let go, when you trust, when you allow yourself to be led-you become a magnet for divine alignment.
your entire life can really change in a year.. you just gotta love yourself enough to know you deserve more, be brave enough to demand more, and be disciplined enough to work for more
This year, I’m unlearning fear. I’ll reach out first, respond more, show up to invites, and stop hiding from people. I’ll care loudly, love openly, manage my anxiety better, and choose to live instead of just exist.
i’ve been saying this to myself this morning and i’m going to say it to you in case you need to hear it: you are not here to be physically attractive. that is not your purpose. you are here to learn new things and be kind to people and listen to your favorite music and pet cute dogs and read big books and drink good coffee. you are here to see beauty in the world and create it when you can’t find any. you are not here to impress people with how you look.
stop getting so emotionally attached and enjoy experiences with a person. be friends. be a moment in time. be a memory. you don't have to fall madly in love with everyone who comes your way. just enjoy their presence for your moment together.
Guys please romanticize your life. Go on solo dates, study in coffee shops, buy yourself flowers, wake up at 5 am to do a workout, cook yourself some dinner. it will bring you happiness i promise. not for people to see, just for yourself