Before he was born, the dice were already thrown. The genetic lottery paid out differently for each of us. Wisdom is accepting the hand while learning to play it well.
Break your leg, and everyone signs your cast. Break your mind, and everyone avoids eye contact. That’s mental health stigma—silence that kills faster than either.
constant exhaustion not tired, brain fog depression anxiety, stuck in survival mode, performing normalcy exhausting, toxic productivity mental health, present moment awareness difficult, living intentionally vs autopilot
When appearance and feeling align, we radiate something makeup cannot replicate. But when they split, we look increasingly like well-maintained facades, polished surfaces concealing structural damage.
There was no me separate from this body—only this body, being me, beat by beat. Lying there, I understood what I’d ignored: the mind body connection felt, not theorized.
The body speaks in automotive metaphors we pretend not to understand. We don’t have bodies—we are bodies—yet the mind body disconnect makes us drive past our own warning lights until whispers become shouts.
Wisdom can become a prison built from accumulated disappointment. The truth lives between youthful ignorance and experienced wisdom. This is the beginner’s mind vs expertise tension we must navigate.
Work-life balance becomes counter-cultural rebellion in a society that worships overwork. The cult of busy has made sustainable living seem lazy. This is the quiet antidote to hustle culture burnout.
We’re nostalgic for career stability our economy no longer provides. My father’s ladder became my lattice; my son will inherit a web
Busyness has become our collective lie. In busyness culture we mistake activity for achievement, stress for significance. We’re exhausting ourselves performing exhaustion.
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