Stop. Ask Yourself This.
What does a miserable person do when he wants to survive? And what does he do when he stops being pleasing and decides to live?
“I’m Stuck” Is A Lie
It starts in the quiet moments. Lies you tell yourself in the dark: I’m stuck. I’m alone. This is just how things are. It’s too late. These lies burrow into you, convincing you you’re trapped, a casualty of your own life.
Why Wait?
Nature doesn’t wait.
The rivers carve through rock.
Roots split concrete.
Trees bend sideways out of mountains.
And here you are, waiting.
Why Isolation Doesn’t Work
It is not good for man to be alone. As in warfare and most games of strategy, isolation often precedes defeat and death.
2024: THE LYRICS
Something wants to eat us all alive. Pleasure, pleasure, pleasure. Everything, everything, everything all at once. We’re out in the void, past where we could’ve turned around. Just a raw nerve satisfying. Correction is needed, but hard to see from this perspective.
2024: The Best of What I Read
I didn’t set out to find answers this year, but some books had other plans. These are the best passages I read in 2024 — just fragments, ideas, and turns of phrase that stuck in my mind.