@gaurang.eth

here's something that's been sitting with me: the most certain people are usually the most wrong. there's this weird thing called depressive realism. the idea that people with depression actually see the world more accurately than everyone else. no rose-tinted glasses. no it'll work out hopium. just the thing as it is. sounds like a superpower right? it's not. because seeing clearly and having the energy to do something about it are two different games. the depressed see through the delusion. but they meet each moment without fuel. without fight. clarity at the cost of aliveness. meanwhile the delusional? they're out there building. shipping. failing. trying again. wrong about almost everything. but alive enough to course correct. the gift of clarity becomes a curse when it kills your will to move. and the curse of optimism becomes a gift when it keeps you in the arena long enough to learn. the realistic ones? they live somewhere in between. no fantasies. no dreams. just a faint pulse that says not yet. that pulse is everything. protect it. feed it. don't let clarity kill it. seeing the world clearly means nothing if you're too hollow to participate in it.

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