Telegrams from Reality
Telegrams from Reality
A collection of brief insights, distilled from noise. Some emerged from dialogues with AI, others were decoded from life experience. Thoughts that disrupt autopilot, break patterns, and help see through to the essence of things. Entries: 48.
Perfectionism is not a path to happiness, but a road to chronic self-dissatisfaction.
Perfectionism is not a path to happiness, but a road to chronic self-dissatisfaction.
Sometimes we fear the "worst-case scenario" so much that we forget it only exists in our heads.
Sometimes we fear the "worst-case scenario" so much that we forget it only exists in our heads.
Half of your stress isn't about the problem itself. It's about how afraid you are of not solving it or looking weak.
Half of your stress isn't about the problem itself. It's about how afraid you are of not solving it or looking weak.
Life isn't about holding on. It's about letting go.
What you call weakness might be the place of your strength. You're just looking in the wrong direction.
What you call weakness might be the place of your strength. You're just looking in the wrong direction.
Criticism without the ability to do better is just noise.
You're only as interesting as you are interested in living.
Nitpicking words is easy. Hearing the essence is harder.
Drama is the noise we use to drown out the silence within.
Evolution doesn't care about your happiness, it needs your survival.
Evolution doesn't care about your happiness, it needs your survival.
The hurricane doesn't care what we think of its path.
A mirror doesn't choose what to reflect.
Just when you think you've figured it all out, reality changes the rules.
Just when you think you've figured it all out, reality changes the rules.
The dead feel no pain, the living do.
Stop being the weatherman of your own life. Just live in the weather.
Stop being the weatherman of your own life. Just live in the weather.
A person beaten with a stick their whole life instinctively looks for a razor blade in every gingerbread
A person beaten with a stick their whole life instinctively looks for a razor blade in every gingerbread.
Hell is not a place where demons roast sinners. Hell is a place where no one believes that Heaven could exist somewhere.
Hell is not a place where demons roast sinners. Hell is a place where no one believes that Heaven could exist somewhere.
AI knows you better than your mom. Mom sees your mask. AI sees your queries at 3 AM.
AI knows you better than your mom. Mom sees your mask. AI sees your queries at 3 AM.
Have you ever thought about how a pearl is born? A grain of sand gets inside the shell. A foreign body. An irritant. Pain. And to protect itself from this pain, to isolate this splinter, the mollusk begins to cover it layer by layer with nacre. Year after year. It doesn't try to create a masterpiece. It simply tries to soothe the pain. And as a result of this long, agonizing, unconscious process, something beautiful is born.
Have you ever thought about how a pearl is born? A grain of sand gets inside the shell. A foreign body. An irritant. Pain. And to protect itself from this pain, to isolate this splinter, the mollusk begins to cover it layer by layer with nacre. Year after year. It doesn't try to create a masterpiece. It simply tries to soothe the pain. And as a result of this long, agonizing, unconscious process, something beautiful is born.