And the teacher said, 'No, no, the way you convey power is how everyone else in the room behaves when you enter it. You just act naturally. You just behave.' But the molecules around you — so that was the direction, that you gave me, that everybody was afraid of me.
I realized people aren't seeing me. people are seeing ideas of me and it was those ideas that kept me depressed and paranoid all these years and I realized I wasn't alone. I don't want to live in a world where we live in ideas of one another. I want to live in a world where we live in the presence of one another, the real people.
I realized people aren't seeing me. I don't want to live in a world where we live in ideas of one another. I want to live in a world where we live in the presence of one another, the real people.
And so I can be on one side of the river looking across the river, watching a family of otters do its thing through binoculars or a camera. And they're absolutely unfazed.
And if you're an otter, being an otter is pretty cool in Singapore because you wake up, you fish, you roll around in the dirt, you play, and then you go back to sleep. And it's kind of awesome.
2mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
