literature • culture • philosophy
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Once in a great while you stumble upon a soul or two. Beside them you can simply rest without asking or expecting anything. They feel like that quiet patch of grass you always wanted to sink into or the river you always longed to watch. It is like finding a dusk painted solely for you. It is like witnessing life in its slowest and most unhurried way. The sky and the river, the grass and the fading light, it is all you. And it is all for you.
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once you've hit bottom and felt it hold, you stop walking on tiptoe through your own life.
controversial: the best thing that can happen to a young man is total failure before 25.
not small failure. catastrophic, humiliating, public failure. the kind where everyone sees. the kind where you cant hide from it.
because it destroys the one thing that was going to hold you back your entire life: the fear of it happening.
once it happens you realise it didnt kill you. you got back up. you rebuilt. and now you move different because the worst case scenario already happened and you survived it.
most men spend their entire lives avoiding something that would have freed them if they just let it happen.
failure is not the opposite of success. its the prerequisite. every great man was great because he failed catastrophically early enough that it couldnt kill him but late enough that it could teach him.
after the catastrophe you are free. genuinely free. because the threat that controlled you has already happened.
be more retarded. just do it.
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you don't have to heal in front of people who watched you fall apart.
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X’s monetization program is a complete scam for genuine creators. You can grind out original content that pulls 1.7 million impressions, 11.8K reposts, and 8.4K bookmarks, only to realize those high-value metrics are utterly worthless when it's time to get paid.
Instead of rolling over your fractional ad revenue like any legitimate platform would, X just pockets it, slapping you with a humiliating, six-month streak of "Below minimum earnings" notifications. The platform is busy funneling the entire ad revenue pool straight to mindless engagement farmers and parasites spamming low-effort "good morning" and "good night" replies.
Thank you for your genuine support folks. I will continue writing for you. Thought this is worth sharing. Never talked about analytics and all but this needs attention and I'm sure I'm not the only one suffering.
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i love how "we should catch up" means absolutely nothing in every language. write it in your language.
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you felt it too:
the pause, the pull, the sense that everything made more sense beside me.
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