Disclaimer: If you follow this as a prescription, you will get nowhere.
You go through your day. You read the news, you speak to friends, family, maybe colleagues. You interact with strangers. You consume media in various forms: AI chatbots, videos, podcasts, television, books, radio, articles, music.
Every single thing you interact with throughout your day affects you. Everything tries to make you more like itself. It might be another human, a worldview, a tone, a frequency, a shape, or an idea.
And yet, you probably spend very little time curating what and who gets access to you. You might think you do. But how often do you actually cut something or someone completely and definitely out of your life?
It rarely happens.
Instead, you let coincidence, surroundings, momentum, and habit decide what stays. What you follow, what you click on, what you respond to, what you let linger in the back of your mind. You let your environment decide who you become.
You might excuse yourself. You might think you can keep an ironic distance to it all.
But you cannot.
There is no neutral interaction. No passive input. Everything you allow in shapes you. What you consume, you become.
I am not telling you to abstain from life. I am not even telling you to do anything.
But when you choose to do something, anything, keep in mind that it will change you. It will make you more like it.
Once this truth is realized, there is no way back. You can never look at your time spent the same way again. Your relationship with the world fundamentally changes.
Nothing is just an activity anymore. Nothing is just for fun. Nothing is just to pass the time.
You simply cannot justify letting certain things affect you.
You cannot justify spending time with certain people.
You cannot justify scrolling through endless random short videos.
You cannot justify sarcasm when what you need is sincerity.
You cannot justify irony when what you crave is transformation.
You cannot justify anything that is not you.
You cannot justify being around people who do not inspire you.
People who drain you, confuse you, distract you.
People who celebrate things you want to leave behind.
People who laugh at dreams you have not even dared to speak out loud.
All this might sound constraining.
But it is not.
It is liberating.
Your filter becomes clear. Sharp. Unforgiving.
You no longer operate in the gray. You now see things as black or white.
Either it strengthens you or it weakens you.
Either it builds your future or it breaks it.
Both your no and your yes become extremely valuable.
A no is not merely a refusal of an event, a person, or a piece of content. It is a refusal of the versions of yourself you do not want to become.
A yes is not just approval. It is transformation. You say yes with your whole being. You welcome the new shape your life will take.
You now say yes with reverence.
You say yes to the art that stirs something real in you.
Yes to the people who reflect your future back at you.
Yes to silence when the noise is not worth it.
Yes to depth and beauty.
Everything in your life now has meaning.
Not because everything suddenly became important.
But because you decided it would be.
You no longer hope for change.
You choose change.
Deliberately. Consciously. Precisely.
This is not detachment.
This is engagement at its highest level.
You stop blending in.
You stop numbing out.
You stop pretending to be fine with the flood of things that chip away at you.
You build a gate around your mind.
You build a home around your soul.
You guard both.
And in that space you let the right people in.
You let the right art in.
The music that rearranges you.
The words that rewire you.
The people who remind you who you are.
You notice your senses sharpening.
You notice your time slowing.
You notice that you no longer consume life. You create it.
You are no longer becoming by accident.
You are becoming by design.
And that
is beautiful.
Sincerely,
Milo Morrison