in an effort to scale, we have lost sight that satisfaction emerges from moment-to-moment. the minute interactions hold the most weight. either the authors have forgotten this, or deprive you of it in a bid to sell you more

but hey, we have infinite choice, can use sota technology to checkout without staff, post-purchase track our calories etc everywhere the core product has degraded. we have either lost sight of what it means to live, or we are being deprived of living to be sold sight

for generations, our right to bear arms, civil protections & public safety have been steadily diminishing - while being gaslit into believing the 'police' will protect us. but this idea fails at the smallest extrospection a person on a menial salary, will risk dying, forfeiting the remainder of their life, at the possibility of saving you? pair this with poor equipment, training & laughable competency standards. their actual job is to check whether any laws have been retroactively broken, and of course, to protect themselves nobody cares about your life as much as you do. dont die

as mentzer said, potential can only be accurately measured in retrospect. you are the manifested potential of your highschool counterpart. stop looking at yourself as what you could be, but rather as you are compared to who you were

my soul hurts