if you're dealing with insecurity or impostor syndrome I recommend not having a life narrative. you can just do your best at whatever task and connect with whomever seems to welcome connection if you're not worried how it fits into your life story
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
— David Foster Wallace
Market forces incentivise us to get on the property ladder, and then to set fire to the rungs beneath us so that nobody else can climb up. Moloch needs a good home to rest his cloven feet, after all.
the root cause of most of our problems is that people can tell who is more competent than them but are threatened by this instead of trying to learn from them & lifting them up