Stumbled across this today.
The first image is one of the very first pictures taken of Krisztina and me together. We were on holiday in Mallorca. Nearly 20 years ago now.
Two completely different people standing there, than the ones we are today. In some ways unrecognizable to me.
Like someone we left behind, who no longer exists.
We went together on an inner journey that changed everything - from the inside out. A journey that continues still. And which can best be described and understood as a kind of soul metamorphosis that doesn't seem to have any ending.
Our life has just gotten better. And better. And better.
Clearer. More joyful. Closer. More alive. And filled with a deep growing love and desire to see how much good we can actually reach in the time we've been given.
And as I sat there staring, it struck me -
What if those two people hadn't pulled in a completely different direction than the one each was on?
What if they had just followed the system, the experts, the culture - and everything they'd been programmed to believe since childhood?
How would they look today?
So I asked GPT to take that picture… and layer 20 years of average pressure from the modern Western lifestyle, diet and consumption on top.
If we had stayed standing…
We would still resemble ourselves.
Like this…
I recognize that form of change, which GPT makes a synthesis of. The stereotype and the predictable. The normal. And I can't fathom we live in a world where that is the pattern surrounding us. Which we accept.
Anyways. We ended up somewhere else and better, even though we barely experienced the shifts along the way. We didn't notice the sum of thousands of small choices… decisions… conversations… recognitions… and adjustments over time moves a person completely.
Moved us.
Not a little. But into an entirely different stratosphere.
It's remarkable, don't you think?
If I'm to say one thing to you, standing where we stood - in our early thirties, not really knowing which way was up - it's this -
Pull the opposite direction.
With everything you have in you.
All of it is lies.
You don't want that result, which they're trying to make you believe is "normal", "good enough" or "within what you should be satisfied with".
You weren't created to be average.
You are something far greater.
You are this universe's most incomprehensible miracle - and you contain a force we have almost forgotten exists today.
So shake all that modern identity noise out of your head. Forget the fools. Forget pill culture. Forget those who want you to be a victim. Forget basing your life on a narrow identity about who you feel like using your genitals with.
They've gone astray.
ALL OF THEM.
Forget everything that dulls you, distracts you and keeps you down.
Break free.
And seize life.
Love.
Freedom.
Surplus.
Life force.
Hard.
It's yours.
You received it as a gift the day you stepped into the world.
And it is absolutely possible to grasp.
We intend to see what the limits actually are for it. Is there a back edge? What else should we use the time for while we're here - rot away in front of Netflix with a bag of cookies, a battery of pills and a welfare pittance check?
Come on, friends - UPWARD!
❤️🔥🪽
