Disclaimer: If you follow this as a prescription, you will get nowhere.
Everyone lives inside an endless stream of words and thoughts.
About who they are. About the future.
They create ideas about what they want.
They long for distant outcomes,
but they shrug those outcomes off as unobtainable dreams.
Yet, they dream on.
They tell themselves stories about how badly they want them. They talk about them to others. They visualize them, imagining how it will feel once they finally get there.
But still, they stay still.
Their lives remain eerily the same. Their certainty is not conviction; it is theater. It is the mind trying to convince itself of its own sincerity. The disparity between their lives and their dreams destroys them. It shows in different ways. Some struggle with low self-esteem, feeling they can’t realize the life they want and feeling deeply inadequate. Others deem themselves unlucky, believing the world is set up against them, that everyone who achieved what they want was simply blessed by luck.
The first takes responsibility for where they are.
The second does everything not to feel responsible.
Both are wrong.
They feel certain that they want these outcomes, but their certainty lives only in imagination. They do not want the path. They want the picture. They crave the feeling of being done, not the doing. So they rehearse it in their heads, speak it out loud, collect quotes and plans, and mistake the theater of preparation for motion. It soothes them just enough to stay where they are.
When you truly want something, you move toward it.
You do not plan for it. You do not wish for it. You do not obsess over how to get there.
You start moving.
And so, if you are not moving, your mind is lying to you.
Those distant futures you dream of but refuse to move toward serve a different purpose.
They give you something to occupy the mind.
They give you hope without obligation.
But do not say you want it.
Do not trust those thoughts.
Meet your mind with deep skepticism, or you will be thrown around by it for the rest of your life.
When you truly desire something, you do not need endless deliberation.
If you find yourself in the limbo of wanting something but never moving closer to it, ask yourself this: What do I gain from wanting it?
Examine it closely.
Do not accept your first answer. Sit with the question.
Because nothing from the mind can be taken at face value.
There is always an ulterior motive.
The mind will always protect itself.
It will always breed more thinking.
But most people think too much and do too little.
Instead of listening to your mind, look at your actions.
What do they reveal?
What life are you compounding toward?
It is likely a very different story, and probably one you would rather not believe.
That is exactly the reality that makes people flinch.
They would rather look at the horizon than into the mirror. You might say nobody wants to feel inadequate, unable, or unlucky. But those who see themselves that way cannot lose.
They stay still so they can keep their fantasies alive, safe from the weight of responsibility.
These people are not dumb.
They have built an intricate web of beliefs that gives them exactly the comfort they seek.
That is the choice.
There is no right or wrong.
But if you want truth, you have to burn comfort.
You cannot keep both.
The moment you stop believing your mind, you start seeing the machinery.
You see that the stories it tells are just survival mechanisms.
They are narratives that keep the ego intact.
They are not malicious. They are protective.
But they are still lies.
Your thoughts want to preserve you, not free you.
Freedom is dangerous.
It kills identities. It dissolves plans.
So people stay safe inside their illusions.
They would rather suffer predictably than live honestly.
Because honesty demands that you admit what you actually are.
Not what you claim to be.
Not what you wish to be.
But what your actions prove you to be.
And that confrontation hurts.
It kills the idea of the self you have carried for years.
It makes every excuse ring hollow.
But once you let it, something changes.
The noise quiets.
The mind loses authority.
You start to see clearly that life does not happen in the head. It happens in motion.
You stop asking what you want and start observing what you do.
Desire becomes observable.
Direction becomes visible.
The choice between illusion and truth is yours.
Illusion is comfort.
Truth is consequence.
If you choose truth, you will lose most of what you thought you wanted.
But what remains will be true.
Sincerely,
Milo Morrison