Subs show me I don’t know who I am. A sobering realization.
When I stack switch, I’m trying on identities.
When I experience difficulties with one “identity”, I don’t stick to it, because I don’t truly believe in my identity. Rather than stay true to a core set of values and principles, I change subs like outfits based on what I think will be considered the most fashionable by others.
@Plutus is a good model of what knowing yourself looks like. He knows he wants the Stark lifestyle. He stuck to that like a 1920’s marriage… in sickness, health, till death do he part.
@billions is another good model of knowing what he wants. Pure wealth. Rising up from the sh*t he was born into. Billions’ upwards trajectory reminds me of a quote from the most recent episode of Shogun…
”Fate? Fate is only a tool to those who know how to wield it. I was born in the gutters, left to rot in an orphanage. While some would have cried about bad fate, I learned the lessons fate gave me… ambition, guile, and look at me now, the most successful Lady in all of Izu.”
Where do I stand in my journey now? I became everything Billions wished he could be, but in doing so I lost the thing that made life so exciting, the goal itself. I made love to life and conquered her, but now walk home alone in the Universe’s ultimate version of a walk of shame after a night of triumph.
A Renaissance Man: Ultimate Writer X fueled journaling introspection.