Disclaimer: If you follow this as a prescription, you will get nowhere.
You move along the path that is your life.
So many things to see.
So many choices to make.
So many persuasive options.
But everything you pursue takes your time, your money, your effort, and then leaves you right where you started.
Lost.
Everything you thought you were promised by doing the thing, pain relief, happiness, fulfillment, was only temporary. A brief distraction from reality.
Nothing ever sticks. Nothing is ever solved.
Most of what you do is to relieve some kind of pain.
You entertain yourself to avoid facing yourself.
You try to sound clever to avoid feeling stupid.
You grow to avoid the pain of stagnation.
You are always either trying to get somewhere
or trying to get away from something.
But everything is a trap.
Every outcome pulls you forward, but once reached it collapses in your hands. Every solution whispers permanence, but dissolves as soon as you grasp it. The cycle repeats endlessly, and each time you believe it will be different. But it’s exactly the same. This is the cruelty of prescriptions. They sell you certainty and deliver emptiness.
Anything you do to arrive will ultimately fail you the moment you arrive or the moment you give up.
So if you are motivated by outcomes,
you will be demotivated by reaching those outcomes.
And I am not telling you to avoid outcomes.
I am just shining a light on the game most people are playing.
We live in a society of solutions and how-to’s.
How to earn more money.
How to find your passion.
How to be healthy.
But how-to’s are prescriptions.
And prescriptions do not work.
Yes, sometimes you stumble into solving a problem by following a prescription.
But that is more coincidence than you think.
Most of the time, prescriptions trap you.
They replace the thing you genuinely want.
They become the new goal.
For example:
You desire health. Fitness. Vitality.
So you do the only thing you know to do.
You seek a prescription.
A meal plan.
A workout program.
A strict diet. Vegan, carnivore, paleo, whatever.
Now the only thing that matters is whether you follow the plan or not.
How you feel when doing it becomes secondary.
You kick yourself for missed days.
You belittle yourself.
You lose your confidence.
And you are only ever satisfied when you stick to the plan.
Sounds familiar?
The prescription becomes your god.
And you forget the point entirely.
Most repeat this cycle their whole life.
A lifelong devotion to habit and technique.
Even when they succeed, they feel empty.
Because humans are not designed to chase goals.
Most spend their lives thinking about what to do
instead of just doing what they want.
Most strangle their genuine intuition
by forcing it to be productive.
You have been trained to distrust yourself.
To demand proof before you move.
To believe your instinct must be justified, mapped, explained.
You mistake hesitation for wisdom, when in truth it is only fear.
This is the prison you live in.
But you already know what you want.
If you feel like going for a run, do not install the app, plan the routine, or buy the new shoes. Just run.
Feel what it feels like to run. To act on your intuition.
If you feel like you have chosen the wrong career path, do not bury that truth under practicality or fear of what others might think.
Change your path.
It is simple.
The only way to move genuinely is to lose the constraints.
Destroy the identity you cling to.
Destroy all your shoulds.
Let it all die or keep falling into the same trap over and over.
You already know what to do.
But will you do it?
Sincerely,
Milo Morrison