high performance

  • There is an old tailor’s shop that almost no one remembers anymore. The walls are lined with thousands of pairs of scissors. Some are polished silver. Some are black with age. Some have blades so sharp they can separate silk without leaving a thread behind. People wander into the shop every day carrying pieces of…

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  • The carnival had closed hours ago. The lights still blinked. The music still echoed from speakers no one had bothered to shut off. Popcorn drifted across cracked pavement. Prize booths sat full of stuffed animals that no one had won. The mirrors inside the funhouse reflected empty walkways. Yet one attraction somehow still had a…

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  • It took a long time to get where I was going. Not the kind of long time people celebrate with a social media post and a handful of emojis. The kind of long time measured in endurance. Measured in getting up when every cell in your body voted against it. Measured in swallowing your pride…

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  • You keep calling it life. I call it a loop. You wake up, replay the same story, tell yourself the same excuses, wear the same pain like it’s a badge you earned instead of a chain you refuse to cut. You call it chaos like it’s something happening to you, like you’re not the one…

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  • You said I changed.You didn’t say it like a compliment.You said it like something went wrong. Like I used to fit somewhere… and now I don’t. So let me answer you the way you weren’t expecting. Yeah. I changed.I had to. Because the version of me you were comfortable with?That version didn’t get results. That…

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  • ***Thought tracking today*** There’s a version of you that only shows up when everything is lined up right. Good mood. Good energy. No pressure. No noise. No weight on your chest. That version is average. Because anyone can move when the road is clear. The real question is—can you still move when you’re getting hit?…

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  • Take a good look at the myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex under a microscope and tell me what happiness really looks like. It doesn’t look like a smile.It doesn’t look like a perfect moment.It doesn’t look like a life without problems. It looks…

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  • Hate is loud. It echoes in empty rooms and calls itself power.It throws stones upward and pretends it’s climbing. Let’s be honest. Hate isn’t sophisticated. It isn’t visionary. It isn’t creative. It’s reactive. It’s small hands reaching up at something they refuse to build themselves. I said what I said. If you want to be…

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