When you are this close 🤏🏼 to figuring it out, ‘the system’ will send you a diversion - a phone call, social media update, maybe an unsolicited knock on your door. It’s not random. The system profits off of a critical mass of people remaining disconnected from their true selves, living perpetually in fight or flight mode, never reserving sufficient mental energy for catching synchronicities. It will keep you too busy to think. But you absolutely must think, and read, and learn, and grow. *There is no other way.* The road to destruction is broad. I must admit that ‘destruction’ does seem a tad bit dramatic. More like the road to more emptiness, chasing meaningless adulation/awards so you have a brief feeling of being special, constant fear of loss, etc. Yeah, the road to all that… is broad. The game of life is out here catfishing everyone else. But the way to life… life on your own terms… the one that endures and really feels like life… one without fear of existential threats… no debt, chasing nothing but attracting everything… Yeah, the road to that particular life, is narrow. Few will find the narrow road because it won’t be advertised. Pause and think. Study, journal, course correct. Improve. Find others doing the same. There is no other way. Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. And one more thing… When you find your oasis, your paradise, your heaven, your little village by the sea… Shut up about it. The masses will destroy what they cannot possess. Shut up and take in that suntan. You’d have earned it. — J.O.