There's power and simplification.

Not because you can't handle the complex, but because too much noise drown the meaning.

It gets in the way of the things that actually make the difference.

Our blessing and curse is the finitude of our time.

So by default, that makes the word,

no, a gatekeeper to the contentment we feel in our lives.

What are you keeping out? What are you saving space for?

Clarity is not a luxury, but a necessity.

And when one has limited capacity,

they must both cherish and protect it.

So why does this matter?

It matters because when you simplify things, the path is never as intimidating.

The problem is never unsolvable.

The opportunity is never too far away.

It matters because we dress the solutions up in irrelevant detail and then call them the problem.

We don't see things as what they are. We see them as stories. We tell ourselves. We see too much.

And it just so happens that the biggest leaps forward one can take in life or the result of not secret formulas

or hidden answers, but in freeing ourselves of that excess, saying no to the wrong things

so that we can say yes to the right things. Underneath the stacks and accumulation of nothing is something.

There's something too, the notion that the road to recovery is always a single decision away.

That it's already there.

But you just haven't been able to acknowledge, to choose it.

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