self renewal

This is one of my favorite poems, from Kahlil Gibran We read it at the beginning of our week-long intensives. https://t.co/KnKqSGF9DG

a thesis around plays + theatre in a digital world plays are one of the last forms of media that resist digitization -- not by accident, but by design. a play doesn’t scale. it doesn’t go viral (well, not the real thing. the idea of a play can spread. its songs, its brand, its aesthetics. but the core experience - the presence, the silence, the un... See more

Most people live their lives in between these 2 emotions-

1. Hope that if they achieve something, they will find happiness.

2. Fear that if they lose what they have, they will never be happy.

The day you understand neither of them are actually true is the day you are free.

How many dreams are abandoned for fear of looking stupid in the eyes of those who never think about us at all

Often when people are stuck in life it’s because they’re holding out for the delusional possibility of a costless way of getting what they want, instead of just paying the cost

Dear Future Self,

I'm no longer trying to become you.

Not because I've given up,

But because I finally understand:

You emerge from how gently I hold this moment,

Not from how fiercely I chase the next one.

Anxiety is the universe telling you it's time to do something, to create something, anything