You wake up. Another day. The same ceiling. The same noise in your head. Most people spend their entire lives waking up without ever actually arriving. They drift. They react. They survive. But they never stand still long enough to ask the only question that matters: Where am I, and where am I trying to go? You are here. Right now. In this exact moment. Not in the past you regret. Not in the future you're anxious about. Here. And if you can't locate yourself in the present, you'll never navigate toward anything real. Stress is a sign that you've lost the present moment, that the next moment has become more important than life itself. But life is not happening later. It's happening now. And the only way to build a future worth living is to be awake enough to see the ground you're standing on. You are the same decaying matter as everything else. That's not depressing. That's liberating. It means you don't have to pretend you're special before you start. You don't need perfect conditions. You don't need permission. People believe that you need the perfect conditions to start, but in reality, starting is the perfect condition. Everything around you that you call life was made by people no smarter than you. They just moved. They just began. They didn't wait for clarity — they created it by doing the work nobody else was willing to do. So here's where you are: standing at the edge of every possibility and every excuse. The only difference between where you are and where you want to be is the space between your thoughts and your actions. And that space? It's your responsibility to close it.

You shouldn’t climb mountains for the world to see you, but instead for you to see the world

I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.