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The Present We Overlook

We live in a constant tug-of-war between the pull of the future and the stillness of the present. The future is a mirage — a shifting horizon we chase, convinced fulfillment lies just beyond it. Yet, in the chase, we overlook the profound power of now — the only moment we truly have. Everything we seek, every answer we need, is already here, waiting to be uncovered.

An Artist’s Way

An artist must choose to shun acceptable behavior, political correctness, and the comforts of the commonplace to truly exist in the spacetime of their genius. Playing it safe is like painting by numbers, stealing a riff, using pitch correction, obeying the clock, failing, failing again, and then giving up; it’s pandering to the normals and ignoring what the world desperately needs from us.

Echoes of a Forgotten Freedom

At some point, we all realize that the weight we carry isn’t entirely our own, and the patterns we follow aren’t always of our design. As children, we lived in the freedom to explore, to wonder, to leap without looking. But somewhere along the way, the world taught us to conform. Now, as the tide shifts and the foundations we’ve built on begin to crack, we are called to reconnect with that childlike curiosity — that raw, unfiltered sense of adventure.