The Cost of Being Real
A tender meditation on the quiet exhaustion of hiding your truth, and the courage it takes to return to your full, unmasked self. For those who are not broken—just early.
Wisdom is how you live.
A tender meditation on the quiet exhaustion of hiding your truth, and the courage it takes to return to your full, unmasked self. For those who are not broken—just early.
After burning through ego, illusion, and performance, what comes next is quieter. This is a meditation on living without proving, and returning without retreat.
“Good” once meant whole. Now it’s a step to surpass. This essay explores how comparison shaped by language and colonization distorted our understanding of sufficiency—and how to reclaim goodness as a sacred way of being.
We like to believe we designed the world. But most of what we live is not invention — it’s instinct. And worse, unconscious inheritance. This post traces how our systems were built, when we forgot we built them, and what it takes to begin again.
Before a child ever discovers their own spark, they live by the spark of ours. Protecting the spark — both theirs and our own — is the sacred duty of parents, mentors, teachers, coaches, and leaders.
A metafictional reflection on identity, illness, and spark — for overthinkers and seekers who know that some truths only show up when you're not looking.