Resilience for nuanced conversations about the state of affairs is dwindling, giving way to shallow, performative opinions, designed less to understand reality than to quickly construct a persona or an “other” and move on
For those privileged enough to have life left after work, your job is what pays you, not what defines you.
The interesting part is what you do once the system is done renting you: what you read, make, question, chase, protect, or quietly refuse to become.
Sometimes you stare at something so closely that it stops making sense. The more you try to control the truth, the more it slips away. It’s very annoying and very human
Character is tested in the space between what is convenient and what is right, and proven by the willingness to sacrifice comfort and self-interest for principle…whatever that principle may be
Deliberately staying ignorant on something you know you should understand doesn’t suspend consequences, it just delays them. The bill still arrives…the only variable is when
Beware of losing your true self amidst the chaos of every day affairs. Good news is you’re more resilient than you think…bad news is, you’re more fragile than you think.
“Justice interrupts mercy.”
“Not interrupts, but balances. Mercy creates; justice corrects. That’s why they say existence begins with love, but love must be accountable, or it becomes indulgence.”
“In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”
Before anything happens, before action, thought, or speech, there is mercy, and mercy presupposes existence.
Being passive aggressive gets you further away from your actual objective unless your objective is to make the other defensive, for that, it definitely works.