The same way you can taste a lemon that isn’t there. But this is a dream. You must wake up from it and go. You can’t stay in Kansas anymore. You must go, before it’s too late. Before it gets nice to just think about it.

You must go. You must leave your state of potential behind. You must go somewhere over the rainbow. Dreaming about it from “Kansas” feels good, but the drug of potential isn’t good for you.

I LIKE LOS ANGELES. It is pretty and sad. It is sad because it is filled with people who were once told they had so much potential. And because the weather is pleasant, they stayed in that state of potential forever and one day woke up and they weren’t twenty anymore—nor thirty, nor forty, nor fifty. It is a city of people high on potential where... See more

Don’t dwell on the dream too long. Don’t dwell on what you don’t have. Dwell on what you have and take action towards what you don’t.

I was real addicted to this form of wishing. Closing my eyes and dreaming of the good life. It was actually better than living, as long as you didn’t wake up. Waking up is death. You wake up worried about money. You realize the thing you want happening to you isn’t even close to happening because you were dreaming about it so much it felt real, and... See more

A life of potential is more fun than life.

A life of potential is more fun than life. Like reading a self-help book without helping yourself after. You get the high of doing without doing anything. A dream-state. In dreaming of the thing, it feels like you did the thing.

🎧 listen to this playlist while reading.

MY POINT IS this: You must go. You must leave your state of potential behind. You must go somewhere over the rainbow. Dreaming about it from “Kansas” feels good, but the drug of potential isn’t good for you. It feels good to want, dream, and yearn. In a way, it feels just as good as getting what you want, dream, and yearn for. The same way you can... See more