“You cannot lead a battle, if you think you look silly on a horse.”
If you want to do anything unusual, you have to become comfortable looking ridiculous before it looks impressive.
They’ll make electricity so cheap, only the rich will burn candles.
They’ll make junk food so cheap, only the rich will eat clean.
They’ll make social media so cheap, only the rich will live in the real world.
They’ll make the internet so cheap, only the rich will read books.
They’ll make information so cheap, only the rich will know what’s actually true.
They’ll make AI so cheap, only the rich will still know how to think.
It’s strange how you can scroll past a war, an election, a market crash and someone’s wedding all within thirty seconds. I don’t think our brains were ever meant to process the whole world at once like this.
I’ve started noticing how much easier life feels when you stop trying to explain every small thing about yourself. Some people will understand you naturally, and some probably never will.
A lot of adulthood is just slowly finding out which things were actually important…
and which things everyone around you was simply pretending were important.
You don’t always notice when you stop being yourself around someone.
It happens slowly.
You stop telling them certain things. You stop joking the same way. You start explaining yourself more. You become careful.
And one day you realise you’re not comfortable anymore.
You’re just managing the relationship.