“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.” - John Lennon
For most of my life I was the smartest person in every room I was in.
This is not a brag about my intelligence and more an admission that I was perpetually in the wrong room.
I was in the wrong rooms because I was afraid. Afraid of failure, afraid to lose control, afraid of the unknown. It was easier to be the big fish in the small pond.
But it came at the expense of my potential and one day the internal dissonance from taking the easy way out just got too great to ignore and I had to take a leap into the unknown.
I had to let it all fall apart.
I’m sharing this because I’m having an honest reflective moment about my own human weakness and fallibility and I think many of you out there are probably still in a place that you’ve already outgrown.
My advice?
Its time to let the past die.
Kill it if you have to.
That’s the only way to become what you are meant to be.
I’m extremely optimistic about humanity. I fully expect humans to colonize the entire universe. There is no practical end to our civilization, it will ripple forward for trillions of generations to come. We’ve only begun to scratch the surface of what we are capable of.
Overheard at a school function:
“Sixxx sevennnn sixxxx sevennnn (in unison) omg we are the most brain rotted generation ever”
This level of self awareness is actually amazing lol 😂
The kids are alright.