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Stop

In a seaside town, on a sunny week, at work. Always at work, then back "home" at more work, under never-ending stress, playing Atlas all the time. Not today. Against all ods, today will be a day for sea toe-dipping, plenty of sun burns and a few seaside glasses.

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A good man for ten wise men

I'll happily trade you ten wise men for a good man. The world doesn't lack brains. Mental brilliance is all over the place,  in unprecedented supply. The world lacks plain old goodness. Good old fashion good nature.

philosophy

Be yourself

Trying to be what you can't possibly be is the root of all your troubles. Trying to appear to be what you can't possibly be is worse. There is usefulness in everything, there is beauty to be found in the most trivial of things. There are people to seek and find these.

philosophy

Letting go

The art of letting go is the hardest thing to muster. Letting go of that money you no longer have, of your high-school sweetheart or former partner, of your dead loved ones, of your misconceptions from last year. You cannot be wrong again in a forward-moving way unless you let go. You can only be wrong in your normal, static, unproductive, unaesthetic fashion.

philosophy

Decay

New, cool things keep on showing up all the time, or old things are unearthed and headed for novelty and coolness, as they're exposed to fresh light. Their vast majority shall be destroyed or discredited by a vast majority of superficial losers. Their potentiality becomes the potentiality of decay. Always and forever, because there will always be losers, and they'll always hold majority.

philosophy

Withhold

Real skill comes without effort
(Li Mu Bai)

Do not be brilliant. Brilliance expresses itself, against all odds, and perpetually eludes those who seek it. Don't even try, you'll put yourself in the position of being both ineffectual, and pathetic. Stick to passion, brilliance will follow, if ever, or not at all, regardless of your struggle.

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