I once read: "A pseudo-feminist will defame her father for validation, while a misogynistic man will fight the world for his mother."
It makes a lot more sense to me now.
one common trait I find in high achieving individuals is urgency. it looks almost like impatience until you understand it is closer to reverence, a deep refusal to waste the one thing they can’t buy more of. the alarm goes and they rise. the message is answered while it is still warm. the small task is done before it can find a shelf to hide on. they commit and move in a single motion. an idea sparks and they chase it that day, before the world talks them out of it. they run at their own lives like something is at stake, because they have decided something is.
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.
A blue passport is an insult to the very idea of citizenship. Abolish it.
If you believe you and your children are entitled to a passport that places you above the people you claim to serve, then perhaps you’ve already decided where your loyalty lies. Safe travels.