to me, freedom was always a picture of doing what i wanted, whenever i wanted, without having to worry about anything but the freedom itself. but i realized i was wrong, because when God freed me from smoking, i felt such a release in my heart that i cannot even put it into words. i’m not even sure what to compare it with. it’s something i have never felt in my entire life.🌹

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if all that you care about is seeking God’s path, everything you will ever need will be added to you. in the past few months, i haven’t been focusing on much else but His path alone, and i haven’t missed anything. i’ve been blessed with exactly what i needed, all the time. i’m talking about food, water, clothing, even money, and all the other things that are necessary to survive. i don’t have to worry about anything.🌹

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i was really obsessed with the time i spent on social media. i always wanted to be on multiple platforms at once. i wanted to engage with everyone, i did all the stuff that we are “supposed to do” in order to have a chance of surviving the algorithm. and i was so, so stressed. i don’t think i had a day when i wasn’t stressed about this. it truly started to control my life, and for what? i got no real success out of it, and my mind was affected. despite these realizations, i still couldn’t get myself freed from it. but once i started to understand that everything is in God’s hands and that as long as i am faithful and obedient, He’s taking care of me, my relationship with social media completely changed. i barely spend time on it now, and i know that it’s not within my power to fight with the algorithm. i know that He is doing things for my own good, and whatever post is worth great metrics will get them.🌹

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in the last few months i haven't wanted anything else but to understand the Bible and to take steps forward in living and understanding it, while putting everything else i used to give attention to on a secondary plan and as a "reward", on many days, and in more moments than i can count, i've seen how God is with me: whether i was "saved" from various accidents, or people around me were "protected", or i received answers to things i've been seeking, or i was freed from things i wanted to be free from but couldn't, such as smoking a lot of things have happened that proved to me that God is truly with me all the time. more than this, i've never lacked absolutely anything on any single day. absolutely nothing!!! and my experience is found in the verse i shared in the previous story: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me." – Revelation 3:20 1/2

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i used to believe that the only time i felt at peace was when i was at music festivals or at the cabin or on holiday with friends. i was disconnecting myself from everyone and everything and just spending time enjoying myself there. and i truly believed that i was at peace. but as soon as the last day came, the sorrow started kicking in as well. i started feeling bad, stressed, and depressed again. after 27 years of life, and more than a decade of feeding myself with that idea of peace, i finally felt peace in my heart. this year i got closer to God, and now i’ve reached a point where i feel a little of what real peace is. and i don’t have a word to explain this peace. i simply feel that it’s there. idk what your relationship is with God, but i know that a lot of people are dealing with many things they are not talking about, and i know the single Way to actually get to peace.🌹

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the old mtv show punk'd was the inspiration behind kind'd. there, people pranked you. here, people were kind to / kind’d you. we used to get punk'd, but now i think we need to get kind'd more...🌹 https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/jfg_tlB5ux94/kinded

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one of the biggest issues i have with social media right now is that "it forces us" to make everything and anything about content. we always have to think in "posts", because if we don't we might get left behind. but are we really? i've written more about the contentification of everything in this essay.🌹 https://thehiddeni.substack.com/p/weve-become-content

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i have no idea how many books i’ve read in my life (it could’ve definitely been more) but what i know for sure is that none of those books really changed my life. i’m mostly talking about the non‑literary ones that i read with the purpose of learning something that could eventually change my life, like think and grow rich for example, and not lotr. it might be the way i acted, or it might be that those books simply didn’t help me. idk what it is, but what i know is that no book truly changed my life. but 7 months ago i started reading the Bible, and well, today my life is completely changed. both visibly (what people see) and invisibly (within myself). i am a totally different person. i’ve changed my relationship with so many things, received so much light and wisdom on so many aspects of life, and so, so, so many other shifts have happened for good in my life. it’s definitely the only book i recommend everyone to start reading because it truly, truly changes lives.🌹

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i’ve always wanted to help people. i wanted to support them, to empower them, i wanted to see them happy. but i’ve always done that solely based on my own understanding of what helping them in a good way actually means. but now, the only way i truly want to help someone is by introducing them to God and His Way, because God is the only one who truly made me happy. i’ve never felt better in my entire life. now, when i reply to someone with "i'm good, i am happy", i truly mean it. i never did before, because i never actually felt good. that’s the only way in which i truly believe i can help someone. i will still help anyone with whatever i can, as much as it resonates with me, but this is the only way in which i know that someone will truly be helped.🌹

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i don’t want to get political or anything, but the world is messed up. we have the war in the middle east, russia is putting pressure on nato, and the closest nato country they might attack is where i live (romania). china is preparing its war with taiwan. these last two make sense because the us is really affected by the middle east war and can’t fight on 3 fronts + they are really happening. the climate is turned upside down. it’s never been hotter or colder, depending on the area. nothing good will come out of any of these, and it’s in these times when you have to ask where this all goes. 1/2

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one of the lies i've always told myself is that freedom is something i can fight for, and that being free means doing whatever i want, whenever i want. but i was so wrong about both of them, and in march this year i finally felt what freedom actually means. i've written about that moment and what it actually means to be free in this essay.🌹 https://thehiddeni.substack.com/p/the-first-time-i-truly-felt-free

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the reason i've decided to release my experiments on different subdomains/mini-apps is that i believe we need more things we open for a single purpose. more finite things. if i'd put all my experiments on one interface, it would keep you there forever, and you most probably wouldn't pay the same attention to each of them. but this way, you intentionally open every one of them, not distracted by the others, and you leave whenever the specific experiment fulfilled its purpose. and if you want to feel the same thing again, you will go just to that specifc room again.🌹 https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/hBzWCGGIMbOz/the-things-id-save https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/jfg_tlB5ux94/kinded

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being kind is one of the most expensive things we can do, particularly because it costs us so much of what this world rewards, the need to be seen, being "right", and more than anything, pride. i know this because, as kind as i thought i was, i wasn't. so one of the ways to understand why it's worth giving up all those things is to first realize the impact kindness has had on us, and on other strangers. that's why i brought to life kinded.🌹 https://farcaster.xyz/miniapps/jfg_tlB5ux94/kinded

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my sister has a cat, and a month ago or so it was poisoned. when i saw her i literally thought she was going to die. she had bad spasms, she already looked dead. i called a friend who's a vet, and he came to see her, treated her a little, and then told my sister to keep giving her milk. none of us believed she would recover. BUT BUT BUT after a couple of days she was doing well. i'd seen her look like she was already gone, and a few days later she was catching birds straight from the air. that to me was a miracle God made in my sister's life. she was treated, yeah, but coming back like that went so far beyond anything any of us expected. even the vet. it's incredible how good He is, if you're really really listening to Him.🌹

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the news related to farcaster made me realize once again how fleeting and uncertain everything is, and how important it is for me that i’ve found something to ground myself in. many months ago, i’d have become stressed, because i spent most of my time and energy on farcaster, doing my best to be a pawn that might move it forward (not sure how successful i was though lol). and as i am not a fan of any other “social” platforms, i would’ve become stressed because i didn’t know where i should focus my attention next. i am still a bit lost and taken aback by the news, to be honest, but i’m more at peace now than i could’ve ever been, because i know that God is taking care of me, and everything is happening for my own good. He brought a peace in my heart that i don’t know how to put into words. it’s like the peace a father/mother gives to their children when they tell them that everything is going to be alright and you believe them, because they are your parents and they know it. 1/3

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