I've underestimated how often people, instead of tending to self love, go down the path of (self) destruction in order to break another, because for them this is the way to level the scales & feel as "good, worthy" as the other, their ego & insecurities briefly appeased.
Proust escribió en su novela que en la segunda mitad de la vida, una persona puede convertirse en la antítesis de lo que era en la primera. Cuando leí esto por primera vez hace unos años, me gustó tanto que lo anoté y lo puse en mi billetera.
Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.
The most advanced technologies in the world are trees, mycelium networks, river systems, and entire ecosystems. I’m personally tired of idolizing human made technology that destroys the very systems that actually sustain life and hold real wisdom.
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
Believing you’ll be the exception to someone’s mistreatment requires believing the people before you deserved it. they didn’t.
& if anything it only makes the next person feel more isolated & embarrassed when the same pattern unfolds (it usually worsens)
God loves you just as you are, but He dreams of you being even better! The Lord allows us all to start anew, for being human and being Christian does not mean never making mistakes, but rather growing in the ability to convert, repent, make amends and, above all, to reconcile and forgive.
Life’s mistakes do not define a person’s identity. If we trust in divine grace and allow ourselves to be guided and transformed by it, we discover in our lives that the past does not condemn the future, but rather offers us the possibility to change our decisions and choices.
I feel seen when my friends tell me that my light is dark.
The image of a scorching sun over a blooming meadow has never represented my core energy.
I am more ember-like. Crepuscular.
Those who come close know.
Sometimes it is not even a matter of patience or asceticism (voluntary privation), but the fact that acting otherwise would just feel empty & meaningless to me.