Preamble

Everything here was written by me and is dated as it was written. Each piece carries its original text, plus critiques added later, each dated independently. Reading top to bottom means chronologically reading the same ideas reassessed several times over five-plus years, sometimes agreeing, more often not.

This archive entirely predates the Codex in time and intention. Everything written here (except for the critiques) reach for a rule, a mantra, or a “just do X,” while the Codex was built specifically to replace that instinct with mechanisms instead of maxims, trade-offs instead of absolute solutions, and systems to work with instead of individuals to blame or credit. Several of the later critiques point directly to specific Codex entries where an idea was first poorly discussed here eventually got treated better.

So think of this as an archive of old material, several passes of self correction, and the seams where the thinking that became the Codex first started to show through.

Levitikyles Book One

Change of Self

Unplanned and unorganized life advice from someone not qualified to give it. Change of Self is focused on altering behavior.

Timeframe: October - November 2020

Index

Chapter One - An Effort To Keep Self Depreciation At A Minimum

• 1:1:1 - Connections With Others
• 1:1:2 - Honest Review of Your Own Life
• 1:1:3 - Learning About Yourself
• 1:1:4 - It’s Okay To Ask For Help

Chapter Two - How To Make Challenging Yourself The Norm

• 1:2:1 - How To Go About It
• 1:2:2 - View Challenges With Excitement
• 1:2:3 - Confidence and Connection

Chapter Three - Romance From The Mind Of Someone Who Has Never Been In A Relationship

• 1:3:1 - Only Prioritize If You Must
• 1:3:2 - When There’s Nobody

Chapter Four - The Way To Life Satisfaction

• 1:4:1 - Two Categories, Not 1, 2, 3
• 1:4:2 - Involve Yourself
• 1:4:3 - Make Music A Part Of Yourself

Chapter Five - Patience In Three Parts

• 1:5:1 - The Act Of Being Okay With Waiting
• 1:5:2 - Being Slow To Anger
• 1:5:3 - The Ability To Meditate Well

Chapter Six - Getting A Handle On Stress And Stressors

• 1:6:1 - Slow It Down
• 1:6:2 - Dealing With Stresses That Are In The Future

Chapter Seven - The Art Of Self Sacrifice (Generosity)

• 1:7:1 - The Two Ideals
• 1:7:2 - Unconditional Love

Chapter Eight - My Take On The Future

• 1:8:1 - Our World Is Fucked

Chapter Nine - Death

• 1:9:1 - Death Is Not An Escape

Chapter Ten - Loneliness

• 1:10:1 - How To Dwindle Its Power

Book One Finale - You Can Change

Levitikyles QNA

• How do you resist temptation?

Chapter Introductions

Chapter One: An Effort To Keep Self Depreciation At A Minimum

Self depreciation. Basically at its peak at this point in our lives. For this chapter, I’m going to define self depreciation as actively hating yourself for reasons that may or may not be valid. In Chapter One, I’m going to be giving my best tips at helping you become more honest with yourself and learning how to be content with your actions.

Chapter Two: How To Make Challenging Yourself The Norm

Yeah, I get it. You don’t want to do some shit that’s hard even if it has great benefits. What if I told you I could help you so that you’d WANT to challenge yourself? You see the challenges for what they really are - opportunities to strengthen yourself. Of course, you’ll still prefer other stuff, but challenges won’t be so challenging anymore. And you’ll improve as a person. :)

Chapter Three: Romance From The Mind Of Someone Who Has Never Been In A Relationship

(giggling in background) lol!! I don’t know what I was trying to accomplish with that introduction. Anyway, I want to talk about this topic because you kinda think about it a lot if…y’know. Am I doing something wrong? Do people just not like me? The fuck is wrong with me? In this chapter, I’ll simply talk about how I view romance as it’s never existed in my life. I’m probably excited for this one the most cuz it’s fun to talk about.

Chapter Four: The Way To Life Satisfaction

Be honest with me. Do you hate your life? Maybe not completely, but a good amount? What about yourself? Do you like who you are as a person? Do you like the life you live? You’ve probably thought about these questions a lot. In this chapter, I’ll give my best advice on enjoying your life more and how to adapt to change better.

Chapter Five: Patience In Three Parts

Patience. What is a patient person like? What exactly is a patient person? For this chapter, I’ll define patience by a few different definitions. 1) the act of being okay with waiting, 2) being slow to anger, and 3) the ability to meditate well. In this chapter, I’ll help you achieve all three of these the best that I can. I hope this chapter will make you much more mellow, much more calm and of course, much more patient.

Chapter Six: Getting A Handle On Stress And Stressors

This chapter is quite personal. Everyone has their own unique stresses and stressors so it’s impossible for me to clear up all of your lives. Instead, I’m going to give my best advice on how to combat stress and overwhelming things, and also how to combat some common stressors.

Chapter Seven: The Art Of Self Sacrifice (Generosity)

You might think you don’t have much to give. Boy, are you wrong. We all got a ton to give. However, you gotta know how to handle your problems first. You have your own life to maintain. Once you’ve done that, then you can go about helping others as much as you want. You want to sacrifice your own time to help others and get nothing in return? Lemme show you how.

Chapter Eight: My Take On The Future

The future is scary no matter how far it is, I think we can all agree on that. This chapter is going to be sort of like chapter three, my take on things, but will also contain some advice on how to prepare yourself for the future. How to be ready for it - and not scared of it. You’ll see what I have to say in the future. ;)

Chapter Nine: Death

I know how cryptic this sounds. Doesn’t matter, it still needs to be discussed. In this chapter, I’m going to discuss many things about death itself. There are a lot of misconceptions about what I’ve heard regarding it.

Chapter Ten Prelude: Loneliness

It’s something we all go through. Literally biologically built into us. It’ll never completely fade away. This will be like chapter eight - mostly a discussion about loneliness itself, but also some advice on how to make it happen less and have it be less severe when it does happen.

Verses

Chapter One: An Effort To Keep Self Depreciation At A Minimum

1:1:1 Connections With Others

Show people you care about how much you care. Don’t just tell them, show them. Deeper connections with people will help you love yourself as you feel loved back. And there is a higher chance they’ll be able to tell something is wrong, and a higher chance they’ll know how to help you. People to lean on temporarily are always helpful for yourself, but don’t lean for too long. They still need to take care of themselves.

10/24/2020

Critique

Not terrible advice, but it does heavily rely on the assumption that the other person cares equally. Also, some people just don’t respond well to that kind of attention. You have to understand the kind of relationship you have with this person before you go about showing affection. People take time to build a relationship and develop trust.

3/15/2025

Critique

“Deeper connections with people will help you love yourself as you feel loved back.”

This is not how it works. You alone are responsible for the relationship with yourself. If that relationship is unstable in any way, you carry that instability into every other relationship. Yes, relationships will help you feel loved back, (most of the time) but they’re not necessarily going to help you love yourself. That’s entirely up to you.

12/27/2025

1:1:2 Honest Review of Your Life

Be aware of how far you’ve come. Be honest with yourself. Look back on your achievements, faults, strengths, weaknesses. No matter what, because of these things, you do not need to worry about the future. Look at how far you’ve come already. Who’s saying you can’t go further? Only you…

10/25/2020

Critique

For one, it isn’t easy to gain an objective viewpoint of your past. There are so many events and opinions and results to consider simultaneously. Secondly, some people don’t have an impressive past. Yes, they will have accomplishments and moments of triumph, but that may not be motivating for their current position in life. In fact, it could be detrimental. This isn’t a terrible piece of advice but it is difficult to use practically and depends largely on what exactly happened in your past.

3/15/2025

Critique

“No matter what, because of these things, you do not need to worry about the future.”

This is not how it works. The challenges in the future are not the same as the challenges you have faced before. Confidence you will eventually figure it out is not an antidote to stress and anxiety. Also, this entire piece assumes an insecure audience, and is therefore useless to anyone even moderately secure in themselves.

7/20/2026

1:1:3 Learning About Yourself

Spend time alone with yourself. Often. For some reason you aren’t born with an understanding of yourself, you gotta figure that out. You need to know who you are in order to make decisions based on who you are. Sometimes you need to just sit in the dark with some music for two hours and leave yourself to your thoughts. When you know who you are, you learn how to help yourself. You know what you’re good at and what you need to improve. The hard part is acting upon your weaknesses to try and fix them, and the only way you can do that is by exposing yourself to them and making yourself uncomfortable with the fact they exist. You may still choose to not act on them but realize you are only doing a disservice to yourself. There may be weaknesses you can’t fix but you don’t know that until you try to fix them. I know this seems hard to do and it is. You have the rest of your life to figure it out, though. But that doesn’t mean you should procrastinate about fixing your weaknesses. The only way they are going to get better is through you, and if you never act then they will only get worse and will soon become part of who you are, nearly impossible to remove.

10/25/2020

Critique

Honestly solid, but you’re making it sound easier than it really is and are somewhat oversimplifying it. Still pretty good though all things considered.

3/15/2025

Critique

I agree with you, but you’re focusing a lot on “fixing weaknesses.” I believe learning about yourself is more so focused on developing a better relationship with yourself and helping decide the best course of action for your life, not so much for optimizing every flaw. You do clarify this with “There may be weaknesses you can’t fix but you don’t know that until you try to fix them,” but even after saying this, you still heavily focus on fixing weaknesses. Not a big thing, but I did find it offputting.

12/27/2025

1:1:4 It’s Okay To Ask For Help

It’s okay to ask for help. Doesn’t matter what it’s about. We as individuals can never know everything or be perfect on our own. The “lone wolf” analogy exists for this very reason. You don’t have to ask for help on everything - that will create a need to depend on others for your life to function. You need to build yourself and ask for help when you don’t understand the blueprint. Of course, try to figure it out on your own first. But never forget that it is impossible to function completely alone. You need people. Become comfortable with asking for help even though asking depends on the environment but don’t rely on others for help. By letting others guide you back to your path subtly relates back to 1:1. It also helps you clear the fog and find the right path again, whatever the right path may be. Please, don’t get lost alone. You cannot function without others.

10/26/2020

Critique

This is honestly kind of common sense. Most people understand that it’s okay to ask for help but might have a half-decent trauma-related reason not to. Additionally, you’re seriously overcomplicating this. All that really needs to be said is that you should be capable on your own but have the option to lean on others if you must.

3/15/2025

Chapter Two: How To Make Challenging Yourself The Norm

1:2:1 How To Go About It

In order to make challenging yourself the norm, you need to actually go out and challenge yourself normally. I know, you’re asking two questions - HOW do I challenge myself? and how do I go about actually challenging myself? The first question depends a lot on your situation. If you always struggle with getting work in on time, then you need to work on getting it done sooner. If you never work hard during a workout, you need to understand the benefits of doing the workout and create the motivation to do so. This question is a lot more personalized so I’m not gonna go through every situation. But anyway, the first tip - plan out how you’re going to do things a while before they happen. Instead of leaving all your homework to Sunday, try getting it done throughout Thursday and Saturday so you can rest Sunday. Take harder classes just to see if you can handle them and if you can, great. If you don’t work hard, you need to learn to push yourself by pushing yourself. Get someone or something to hype you up. Look towards the positives of your actions. Find a motivator (can be literally whatever) that encourages you to improve yourself. Or simply want the best for yourself. There’s no easy way out with this chapter, it’s going to be difficult. Hell, that’s the whole point of the chapter. But, the more you challenge yourself, the less daunting challenges seem, and the easier you can face them. This is one of the most difficult life lessons to learn because it takes so long to notice any improvement. The goal of this chapter is to make challenges less daunting, but this chapter is a lot more about actions rather than mindset.

10/27/2020

Critique

As much as I appreciate you trying to explain how to challenge yourself, this is not something that can realistically be explained. Part of life is defining what matters to you and learning to work towards it because it matters. But what you’ve said here isn’t wrong, I just think it will only resonate with the people who already understand it and not necessarily the people who need to hear it.

3/15/2025

Critique

“Find a motivator (can be literally whatever) that encourages you to improve yourself.”

A motivator cannot necessarily be literally whatever you want. If you place your motivation in anything you do not have control over, your motivation is contingent on something inherently unreliable. To be clear, that doesn’t mean you can’t be motivated by external factors, but you should not be motivated because of them. A relationship you consider important can be a source of motivation, but if it is dependent on the current status of the relationship (which will naturally change), then your motivation fluctuates as well. This isn’t necessarily a flaw, but it is something to keep in mind. Being motivated by yourself and what you want to do is much stabler than anything else.

7/20/2026

1:2:2 View Challenges With Excitement

View challenges with excitement. This probably sounds stupid. If you view challenges as opportunities to become a better person, then you’ll be ready and wanting to face them. You’ll still prefer other things, of course, but challenges won’t be as difficult. You’ll reap more out of them because you know what you’re getting. You’ll never want to always do every challenge, but you want to do a significant number more. Don’t focus on the journey of the challenge - focus on the outcome. The more you think about the outcome, then the more you want to complete the challenge. But don’t let thinking about finishing distract you from the challenge itself, you still need to stay focused.

10/29/2020

Critique

This is just a change in perspective that is not very sustainable because most people don’t have the work ethic or ambition to keep this up. And that’s fine, but you are assuming most people have the capacity for it when they just don’t. The more challenges you undertake, the more exhausting they become, but the less challenges you undertake, the less you find fulfillment out of your life. You need to find a balance that works for you, not just somehow be excited by every potential opportunity.

3/15/2025

Critique

You focus a lot on the outcomes of completing such challenges. And while it is true that the destination is often quite motivating, the journey also needs to be sustainable. I mean, I want a million dollars and I’m willing to put in the work to make the money, but I’m sure as hell not going to accept cleaning sewers ten hours a day for $15 an hour. Work smart, and then work hard. The journey needs to be sustainable or else the outcome doesn’t matter because it will never arrive.

12/27/2025

1:2:3 Confidence and Connection

Believe that you can accomplish whatever comes your way. If you keep looking forward, you’ll never see your past. What you’ve done already. How much you’ve handled. Yeah, you might be stressed out of your mind right now, but that is okay. That means you were strong enough to put yourself in that position in the first place. If you’re stressed for a test, realize that you are in that class to challenge yourself. You learn from challenges, not from stuff that’s easy. If you never went into that class, you never would have learned. What about a competition? You were strong enough to join whatever it is, and good enough to compete. It may suck that you just can’t be calm, but remember - when the competition starts, your focus goes through the roof.

You’ve taken and handled so many challenges already. You’re a lot stronger than you think, you just gotta actually believe that. If you need motivation, ask someone for it. “A word of encouragement during trouble is worth more than a whole book of praise after success.” - idfk forgot his name. Like I’ve said before - you cannot function alone. So pick each other up when you’re down. That’s the best way you can build trust with each other. Go through physical and/or mental hardships together. But you still got yourself to challenge, so find your balance between your personal challenges and group challenges. No matter what, you’ll be able to handle the challenges. At the very least, get through them. And the grand connection between chapters two and five has been made - in order to actually go out and challenge yourself normally, you have to have the patience to get through the challenges. Hard work is a mindset, as well as patience. You either got both or none. And the more you get out of your life, the more satisfied you are, and boom. Chapter four. These are all connected. And the more satisfied you are, the less you hate yourself. Chapter one. I totally planned this out.

11/2/2020

Critique

This is literally just a jumbled mess of pep talk advice being relied upon by a metric fuck ton of assumptions. You don’t sound profound, you’re just regurgitating a ton of random ass advice that happened to work for you in a rather specific situation. No idea what you’re trying to accomplish here.

3/15/2025

Chapter Three: Romance From The Mind Of Someone Who Has Never Been In A Relationship

1:3:1 Only Prioritize If You Must

Don’t make it a priority unless it needs to be. Basically, if you’re not already in a relationship, stop taking priority in something that doesn’t exist (yet?). Yeah, it’s nice to imagine scenarios in your head, but if you keep doing that you begin to expect them. You may want a relationship but that doesn’t mean you need one or should even be in one. Sure it’s comfy to imagine but then when your expectations are broken it hurts way more. You can still attempt relationships with people but don’t make it a priority unless they actually accept. Don’t get caught up in a riptide that just takes you further out to sea and not a boat. This is the way I see it: relations > relationships.

10/26/2020

Critique

Honestly solid, just really difficult to actually pull off. Human brains are stubborn.

3/15/2025

Critique

If you want a piece of advice that I’ve had success with, call yourself out when you’re imaging scenarios. Understand that you’re projecting an expectation onto your reality that doesn’t give a shit. It’s not a very easy habit to build, but it does actually help compared to all the “focus on yourself” bullshit that people usually say in response to this stuff.

Honestly, this advice works on much more than just relationships. Make a habit of recognizing when you’re reaching and you’ll stop getting disappointed by unmet, imagined expectations.

At the end of the day, wanting relationships is a biological imperative, and you’re never going to be able to control it. But you can absolutely develop a better relationship with that desire.

12/27/2025

1:3:2 When There’s Nobody

What do you do when you find yourself wanting somebody to love but… there’s nobody? You dread for a close relationship but it just doesn’t exist and you don’t know how to go about even obtaining one. The fuck do you do?

For me, the thing that works is meditation. Not the first thing that comes to mind. (I’ll go deeper into this in chapter five) To just be alone with yourself for a while. If you want something you “can’t” obtain, especially if it’s something involving yourself, then you need to sort things out in your head. Put on some lofi or whatever and just be alone with your thoughts for a while. Don’t rush anything, the thoughts will come naturally. Doesn’t matter what you think about. The goal is to simply enter deep thought but not have anybody to speak to about it at the moment. It may seem scary or boring but it’s necessary if you don’t want to dwell on things you can’t change. “The more you understand who you are, what your actions are and what their impacts are, and what to say then the higher the chance people will come to you.“ - advice from someone where this advice has never actually worked :)

Basically, just talk with yourself. You’ll realize you have a lot more to discover about yourself than you’d like to about others. You can of course still do this even if you are in a relationship. Don’t get caught up in things that don’t really matter.

If you are really dreading a close relationship, then why not attempt to obtain one? At that point, you just want someone. Being with yourself isn’t going to help much.

10/27/2020

Critique

This is quite jumbled, but you’re largely just advocating for regular meditation regardless of situation, which I can get behind. As for the last few sentences, HORRIBLE advice. If you are really dreading a close relationship, you need to sit the fuck down and do some thinking to stabilize yourself because you are clearly not ready to handle somebody else, let alone your own self. The urge can be difficult to control, but you cannot let it take control, or else you start making rash and regrettable decisions.

3/15/2025

Critique

This is going to be opinionated, but stop improving your life with the expectation that you will have a higher chance of obtaining a relationship. People will tell you to be the kind of person you want to attract, but in reality, there is zero consistency in terms of what kinds of people get into certain kinds of relationships. It’s almost entirely luck based and dependent on randomly happening to meet and talk with someone who finds you attractive and has the balls to admit it.

Improve your life for yourself. Don’t make searching for people or trying to be a magnet for “your person” or whatever a priority. Just develop and maintain healthy habits and if someone wants to join you one day, cool. If not, you’re still living a good life. This is not easy to accept, but the only alternative is to sell your soul to a gamble. People will tell you that it’s worth it in the end, but they either never saw the other side or rationalized it away.

12/27/2025

Chapter Four: The Way to Life Satisfaction

1:4:1 Two Categories, Not 1, 2, 3

Do not prioritize one thing you like the best in your life. If you keep a 1, 2, 3 ranking then you’ll always be wishing for more. For example, I really like wrestling practices and I also enjoy hanging out with you guys. However, I prefer being with you guys because it’s purely for fun and we have much more time together. Out of nowhere, I started not wanting to go to wrestling even though I love every aspect of it. Just because I preferred one thing over it I started disliking it. You need to have TWO categories; the things you like doing and the things you don’t but have to do anyway. That way, you enjoy EVERYTHING you find enjoyable. Same goes for stuff you don’t want to do. You can prioritize the order in which you do them to get the hard stuff out of the way first but don’t view some challenges as harder than others. They’re all challenges because you don’t want to do them. It’s kind of awkward, I know, but I don’t know how else to describe it. TLDR; have two categories in life: things you like doing and things you don’t. Don’t rank anything above another, just keep them in those two categories.

10/26/2020

Critique

I don’t know how I feel about this. On one hand, it isn’t terrible advice on account of it making your perspective more positive in general, but on the other, it does kind of cross a line into sacrificing your own personality and what is truly important to you. I would probably elaborate into three categories instead of two: things you love, things you like, and things you tolerate. Optional addition of fourth category for hatred if you like to be an asshole like I do.

3/15/2025

Critique

But in general, I don’t really know what to say about this because I don’t know what purpose it serves. I can’t think of a single scenario where this would actually be useful in any way. Naturally, you’re going to have preferences, and to sacrifice them for the sake of consistency seems… odd.

12/27/2025

1:4:2 Involve Yourself

Be involved in things. Something. Don’t just sit around waiting for good fortune to come your way because it won’t. Unless you actually go out there to do things. I’ve regretted so many got damn decisions by not even making the decision in the first place. The more you put yourself out into the world, the better. The less you experience, the less you think you have, and the less satisfied you are with your own life. If you have to make a big decision that won’t really do much harm, then fucking go for it man. The less you do, the less you have. Your friends ask you to hang out but you’d rather stay in your bed? Go out with them. Got someone you like but don’t know what to do about it? Just fuckin tell them. Want to join something but are afraid it’ll take too much time out of your day or may give you a bad rep? Do it anyway, you want to do it. Want to say something you think is important but others might not? Say it anyway, if people honestly care then they will talk. The more you hold back, the less you actually hold. You might think you’re protecting yourself, but you’re only weakening what you can handle. Take more risks, but don’t be stupid about them. If there is an obvious downside that cannot be ignored, then don’t do it. If you want more from your life, then why are you taking less? If you’ve always wanted something to happen, then why restrict it to your head? If you want to be satisfied with your life, then why are you treating your life as if it doesn’t matter?

10/27/2020

Critique

I like what you’re saying, but fuckin relax man. People need a moment to breathe sometimes. And oftentimes the decisions you make aren’t so simple to the point where you can just ignore your feelings in pursuit of the perceived greater good. I agree, people should take an active role in their own lives, but let them take a break when needed too.

3/15/2025

Critique

I understand what you’re saying, but you keep disregarding potential consequences as irrelevant, when they usually aren’t. I agree, people should take an active role in their own lives, but decisions are sometimes extremely difficult to make, and your oversimplification of said choices isn’t helpful, but irrational.

12/27/2025

1:4:3 Make Music a Part of Yourself

Please, listen to music. A lot. Doesn’t matter what it is. It can change your mood so fast. Music does so many things to help you out, it’s unbelievable. It can hype you up, make you think deeply, brighten your mood, make you feel worse (if you want that), give you hope and confidence, make you more emotional, the list goes on. Just jam out regularly. Don’t make music a tool, make it a part of you.

11/1/2020

Critique

This is just my younger self finding excuses to remain addicted to music. Music is absolutely an extraordinarily useful multitool, but if you feel like you can’t live without it, you might want to proceed with some caution. Addiction to anything isn’t healthy. I’m saying this as much for you as for myself because my Spotify Wrapped statistics are still significantly higher than they should be. I have a problem.

3/15/2025

Chapter Five: Patience in Three Parts

1:5:1 Being Okay With Waiting

Slow down. Breathe. I don’t have much to say about this definition because it’s the most generic definition of patience.

Things may be far, may be close. You’re going to have to wait. Becoming angry about the time spent waiting isn’t going to make it go any faster. The best way to make things go faster is to take your mind off them - become distracted with something else. I’m waiting for a lot of things right now, some of which I’ll talk about, others not. I’m waiting for Halloween because I know it’ll be an epic day. To be patient, I’m focusing on my schoolwork so that I’ll have as little homework for the weekend. I’m waiting for Apex season 7 because it introduces a ton of different shit to the game. To be patient, I’m watching a bunch of trailers and theories to remind myself of the past hype from previous seasons, and I’m also just enjoying the last few days of season 6 because it was one of my favorites and it was the season where I got my first heirloom and introduced my main legend. I’m waiting for two albums right now, one with a release date in early December, one without a release date right now. To be patient with the December one, I’m taking a break from his music so I’ll enjoy it even more when it comes out and so I’m not constantly thinking about new music. For the one without a release date, I’m listening to past albums to remind myself of how good they are and when they were released so I know what to expect. When your mind is preoccupied with a lot of things, you’re going to need to organize those thoughts - whether that means physically or mentally depends on your mental stability - or else you’ll get overwhelmed. Time is going faster, I’m sure we’ve all realized. Things you are waiting for will ALWAYS arrive. The only thing that makes it seem like they won’t is by constantly thinking about when it will happen. Like watching a clock.

10/27/2020

Critique

… Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

Seriously, I have no idea what to critique. There is literally zero substance to this.

3/15/2025

Critique

Genuinely, if you’re too much of a piss baby to be okay with waiting, then seriously, fucking grow up. The world doesn’t bend to your will just because you want it to. Sit the fuck down and wait your turn.

Unless there is something else going on and patience is off the table. But that’s a case by case basis.

12/27/2025

1:5:2 Being Slow to Anger

Being angry almost never accomplishes anything helpful. Getting angry at your friends for not inviting you to something will just make them want to push you away even more. Getting angry at your mom for not coming to see one of your events will just make you seem selfish. Anger rarely helps a situation, so there is almost no point in being angry. You can send a much more powerful message if you say what you’re trying to say, but calmly. Matt was fucking around with a jelly sandwich at xc one day (don’t ask) and the wrapper tore. I became jelly man. I knew he didn’t mean to do it, so I just stayed calm. This was at xc, so I had a water bottle nearby to wash off some of the jelly. Keep in mind - jelly is sticky af and has a very noticeable smell. What would have happened if I got angry? It would have made the whole situation awkward. I wouldn’t be thinking of solutions, but instead, of the blame. It would have hurt our friendship over something so fucking stupid.

But I get it. Sometimes you bottle things up and everything comes out all at once. That’s probably the reason some people get incredibly pissed over little things. And when you’re already angry, it’s hard to just quit being angry. So, tf do you do? What you should do is talk to people about what is on your mind often. This acts as a faucet for the bottle. They don’t even have to be deep conversations, just talk about what’s going on in your life. Talking to people like this will get things off your mind and relieve stress. And the best thing is that you can start a conversation like this just by asking “How are you doing?” Of course, this won’t stop when you’re already pissed af. But it will help empty the bottle to a degree so that you’re less likely to blow up.

To put it simply, 1) Do not get angry over things that really do not matter or if the “blamee” clearly did not have bad intentions, and 2) Talk to people about how your life is going to relieve stress and clear your mind.

10/28/2020

Critique

1. Do not ignore your feelings or what matters to you purely to save face.
2. Find an emotional outlet that works for you even if you think you don’t need it.
3. Being slow to anger is more about how you communicate than what happens to you. Despite this, anger is sometimes still unavoidable.

I don’t intend to completely disagree with you, but you genuinely have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.

3/15/2025

Critique

Anger in Intrapersonal Dynamics discusses anger in a much more realistic way. You can’t ignore it, but that’s not an excuse to always indulge it. It is a case by case basis. I largely agree with the critique above, but I just want to mention this Codex entry since it didn’t exist when I wrote that critique.

7/20/2026

1:5:3 Being Able to Meditate

Meditation is by no means an easy thing to enter. You must be patient when starting, patient during, and patient when ending. To clarify, meditation in this chapter is viewed as spending time with just yourself and being honest with yourself.

To start, you have to not rush it. Just chill and let your thoughts take you. They will at some point, but do not look at outside things that might influence your thoughts. Let just your brain take control of your thoughts. You could put on some light music like lofi or whatever, but nothing too hard. The goal is to enter a mood where you are only thinking from yourself.

During, you need to realize that what you are doing is not a waste of time. It may feel like you are doing nothing at all and could be more productive, but that is not the case. How the hell are you going to be productive if you don’t know how to convince yourself to do things you don’t want to do? You learn a lot from yourself just by meditating, so it really is not a waste of time. I’ve done this multiple times and have come to enjoy it. And remember - be HONEST. Not hard on yourself. This is quite hard to learn as sometimes you don’t know what is true. Here is the best way I can help - if you are studying a problem you have and are trying to figure out how to fix it, then you’re meditating well. If you’re just blaming yourself for things and not trying to fix them, then you’re being hard on yourself. Know the difference or you could hurt yourself. When ending, you might want to write down what you’ve thought about. I don’t really do this because I’ve just learned to take mental notes over years, but writing stuff down can really help. Realize that what you just did was to help yourself, and really not a waste of time. Hopefully you feel calmer as a result of going through. You will understand yourself better, and the more you do this, the more you understand. Do not rush any of this.

11/1/2020

Critique

Solid. This is a great introduction to meditation for those not familiar with it. I would change much of the wording but overall get the same message across.

3/15/2025

Critique

Um… I feel the need to mention that this is not technically meditation. Meditation explicitly wants you to focus on one very simple thing, such as breath, in order to clear the mind. The practice I’m advocating for here is more akin to discovery. I would still argue that it is a necessary practice, at least once in a while, and I still agree with the critique above, but let’s be clear here: this is not meditation.

7/20/2026

Chapter Six: Getting A Handle On Stress And Stressors

1:6:1 Slow It Down

If you are overwhelmed, slow down. Think about what is overwhelming you and how to get those things out of the way. Like in a video game - if a lot of shit is happening at once, play defensively so you can process everything and have a higher chance of living. Can’t run into a fight if there are multiple teams fighting there. If a lot of things are going on in your life, some of them stressful, then slow down and think about them. When you understand what is happening, you understand how to act. Overwhelming feelings last shorter. Once you understand HOW to act, then plan out WHEN you’re going to act. Having a plan for what you need to do always reduces stress because you’re basically just following directions, not making them at the same time. You’ll still get overwhelmed, feelings like that will never stop because time keeps moving, but you’ll understand how to deal with it. By slowing down, I don’t mean procrastinating. The more you delay your actions, the longer you’re worried about when you’re going to do them. Make a plan to get stuff done soon, but don’t overwhelm yourself by assigning everything you have to do in one afternoon. Spread it out. Productivity goes down without breaks. And when you have a plan, don’t assign an exact time. Assign a general time. If I have to do homework, I’ll plan it out for “after school, before 7” or something like that. Then while I’m in that window, I’ll just get up and say “fuck it, let’s get this done.” Exact times are hard to actually follow, general times are much easier because you have a window instead of a number. All of this will quell overwhelming feelings fast, so be sure to utilize them.

11/3/2020

Critique

Although quite scattered, this is solid advice. Make a general plan for your time management and stick to it.

3/15/2025

Critique

I want to briefly discuss the “general time vs. specific time” idea. I don’t actually know which one is better, so I find it interesting to claim that general time is better. It’s probably just whatever works better for you, honestly. In reality, I usually just remember “oh yeah, we gotta get this done” and then get it done at some point.

The most I really recommend doing is assigning what to get done on specific days, and then you can alter your schedule around it. So it would go more like this: slow down, figure out what you have to do, spread it out, assign days to get certain things done. Then again, this is entirely dependent on your timeframe. I usually get things done days ahead of time, but if you’re crunched for time, you can squeeze things. I think the goal is to not have to, but sometimes you won’t have a choice.

12/27/2025

1:6:2 Dealing With Stresses That Are In The Future

Realize this - it does not exist yet. It is going to eventually exist, but not for quite a while. Look in the present - look at what you’ve done to handle the situation you’re in now. You’ll just do exactly that in the future. You’ll figure out how to live based on the situation you’re in. You’ll adapt to the change. You’ll adapt. Of course, it will be difficult, but you will adapt. And by it being difficult, you’ll learn as well. You’ll mature. Challenges grow your head and heart while being hard to handle. You may have no idea how to deal with the challenges now, but that’s why they are in the future. You have a life to live in the present now. People often forget that. If you’re too caught up in the future, you lose the present. There’s no use in worrying about something four years down the road. It only causes unnecessary stress and doesn’t even help solve the problem because you don’t know how because you aren’t experiencing it yet. The future will come, yes, and you’ll eventually have to figure out how to approach and deal with the problems that lay there. But there is no use in worrying about it now. You will figure things out in the future, look at how much you’ve figured out in the past. Focus on the present. The past will remain the passed, unchanged, unchanging. The future is blurry, in no hurry, not needing of worry, your worries, the worried. The future is not worth your time unless it’s near, so don’t shed tears over things that aren’t clear, are in another year, or haven’t appeared. Focus on your present. It’s the only thing you can alter right now, don’t fault yourself for what’s at a halt, or assault yourself for something nonexistent. Focus on now. How? Look around. Ciao ;)

11/9/2020

Critique

This doesn’t really address the main issue. Stress for the future happens largely because of uncertainty, you can’t just say to ignore it. Granted, there is a certain line you don’t need to cross regarding time, you can plan for the future without planning your entire life, but that is not clarified here. In general, focusing on the present is a good idea, but you shouldn’t ignore the future to do so. The only way to deal with uncertainty is to attempt to prepare or plan for it in whatever way you can depending on the situation. Even then, the preparation will sometimes fail you because of said uncertainty. It’s not a simple problem to solve as you make it appear here.

3/15/2025

Critique

Worried? Just stop, man. Homeless? Just buy a house, man. I mean are we for real right now? I’m not giving any advice here, I’m just telling you your problem doesn’t matter. You can’t just turn off stress, it does not respond to rational conclusions because it is a feeling. See Stress and Anxiety in Intrapersonal Dynamics for much better explanations on and responses to stress.

7/21/2026

Chapter Seven: The Art of Self Sacrifice (Generosity)

1:7:1 The Two Ideals

If you want to become a more generous person, you have to adopt two ideals. 1) You are capable. 2) No more selfishness. With the first one, I mean you are capable of helping others most of the time. Even if you’re already busy or already dealing with shit, you can still help others. Even if you think you can’t help in a specific area, it’s sometimes nice just to listen to what somebody has to say. Realize that you are capable of helping others. Even just trying will be appreciated. With the second one, you have to put others first. You could even go as far as to put other’s lives first, the art of self sacrifice. If you have the opportunity to help someone but could also opt out quite easily, help them anyway. Even if you really don’t want to. Even just trying will be appreciated. Then again, sometimes you really can’t help someone because of many reasons, but you really are more capable than you think. You just gotta actually believe that.

11/4/2020

Critique

1. You aren’t always capable.
2. Selfishness is a part of life.

Sometimes you’re not mentally or emotionally present or able to provide for somebody. To assume so is to place a lot of responsibility on yourself that you cannot possibly hope to fulfill. Additionally, you need to take care of yourself first. There is no such thing as “no more selfishness” because if you can’t or won’t take care of yourself well, you cannot provide for others well. While “others first, always” is a nice sentiment, it doesn’t work in practicality. You are, first and foremost, responsible for your life, and if you constantly prioritize somebody else’s, you are setting your own life up for failure. Take care of yourself, do it well, then extend a hand to others.

3/15/2025

Critique

“You could even go as far as to put other’s lives first, the art of self sacrifice.”

Um… yeah, don’t do this. While it’s a fun fantasy to think about, the chance that you will actually be in a life or death scenario like this is almost nonexistent. And in everyday life, prioritizing the lives of others over your own will leave you exhausted and stagnant.

Relationships are also the most difficult part of the human experience bar none. Actually helping is not always as clear cut as it seems, and sometimes it’s difficult to determine whether it’s a good idea or not to even attempt to. Sometimes, to help someone, you have to let them fail. Sometimes, you can’t help somebody and need to prioritze yourself. Sometimes, there’s a question of if they even deserve it. It’s complicated, and your preposition to jump to a black and white answer on all of these complexities is irrational.

7/21/2026

1:7:2 Unconditional Love

unconditional: not subject to any conditions.

You need to realize that all people have flaws of their own and those flaws may or may not be able to be changed. No relationship is perfect, no relations are perfect, nobody is perfect. The trick is being able to accept and love others despite their flaws and accept that nobody can be perfect, but they can be good enough. You can love them anyway. Everyone can be good enough. You don’t know what people have gone through, you’ll never know everything someone has gone through, so be careful how you judge others. You may not like how they act. You can love them anyway. You may not know who they are, what they want or how they act. You can love them anyway. You may not know WHO they are. You may not know their experiences. You may not know their views. You may not know their relations. You may not know their past. You may not know their motivation. You may not know who they love. You may not know who they trust. You may not know who they hate. You may not know them. You can love them anyway. Absolutely nobody who has ever lived and will ever live is undeserving of love, and you cannot change my mind. Everyone has had different experiences therefore acting based on how they viewed those experiences. People act differently and think differently. You can love them anyway. People need help, not hatred. You cannot function alone, so why leave others alone? That’s just bad karma there my guy.

11/9/2020

Critique

Absolutely nothing you have said is wrong, but you are presenting a very lovey-dovey image of reality, which it simply is not. Love is not something you can just readily give away like charity, it is something earned through trust, through experience, through reliability.

As for “Absolutely nobody who has ever lived and will ever live is undeserving of love,” on a surface level, this is true, but there are many things one can do to lose their right to love. I mean with people like Hitler, my argument was essentially that people would love Hitler anyway despite the fact that he was a horrific person with irreparable beliefs. But, while it is true that people would love Hitler anyway, it doesn’t mean he was deserving of love. Sure, in his childhood years, Hitler was absolutely deserving of love. But to claim that you can’t become undeserving through your actions is to believe that people are better than they are. You cannot simply deny the harshness of reality in favor of your arguably accomplishable fantasy. Love is earned, not given, and the right to it can be deserved or lost.

3/15/2025

Critique

“You may not know (blank). You can love them anyway.”

This is fundamentally not how love works. Love requires that you are aware of what others have gone through, like them at least a little bit, and have at least a decent understanding of who they are and what they want. You say the exact opposite. But you cannot love somebody if you don’t know what kind of person they are. Love must be earned, and any love given easily and recklessly is given to a fantasy.

Yes, to be fair, there are different types of love. The relationship you have with close friends is different than with a significant other which is different than with family. But in all of those cases, the relationship took time to develop and there is at least some level of mutual understanding, which is what makes it earned. But let’s be absolutely clear here: loving somebody just because they’re a person is not love, it is empathy. They are fundamentally two different things, and you don’t seem to understand that.

7/21/2026

Chapter Eight: My Take on The Future

1:8:1 Our World is Fucked

Let’s be real. Our world right now is fucked. There are so many problems most of us can’t do anything about. Theoretically, each generation should have more knowledge than the previous ones because they will have more knowledge available to them. This entire theory is in jeopardy because of how much we have to attempt to fix in a short time. Honestly, I don’t have much hope for the future. If our world is fucked NOW, what the hell is it going to look like in a few years? Either we pick ourselves up soon, or… we won’t be able to. The world we have been left with needs to be fixed one way or another and it needs to start soon or else the problems will take over and anarchy will ensue. And with anarchy, most people in the world will die very fast. It will effectively be the end of the world, at least for a long time. I know you’re thinking something like “How do we fix it then?” And honestly, I don’t have a clue. I don’t even know what problems need to take priority. I don’t even know if some problems are really problems to begin with. I don’t even know who to believe. To me, there are two options: 1) We start getting our shit together very soon or 2) We don’t, and the problems catch up to us, and we… suffer. You get the point. Our generation has a LOT to do and my hopes on those things actually getting done are very low based on our current state. I’ll leave off with this: “‘What we need is a few with a view that can bring a change through.’ So I said to her, ‘What about you?’” - Zack Hemsey

11/5/2020

Critique

The world will never be void of problems. It sounds like you’re overexaggerating the issues as you attempt to process them. All things considered, this has been a relatively peaceful time compared to all the chaos of the past, especially the 20th century with World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, Cold War… I mean, that century was ROUGH. Furthermore, the amount of human suffering that happened even prior to the 20th century is inconceivable. All things considered, the 21st century has been quite the breeze in comparison, so I think you’re massively overexaggerating the issues at hand. Although there are significant and novel problems today, it’s not out of the picture to believe we will solve or mitigate them, it is all but guaranteed. Humanity perseveres, one way or another.

3/15/2025

Critique

Me when I fearmonger with zero rational basis

Every single generation that has ever existed believed the world was ending. Every single one of them has been wrong. Yes, we do have a LOT more potential to destroy ourselves now that we didn’t have back then, but that is not a guarantee that the world is going to end soon, and we also have a lot more potential to HELP humanity that we didn’t have back then. So no, our world is not “fucked”. We may not persevere comfortably, but we will persevere, one way or another.

7/21/2026

Chapter Nine: Death

1:9:1 Death Is Not An Escape

Death is not an escape. Do not view death as a solution to your problems, because it’s not. It may “end” all of your problems in the real world, but it causes a whole hell of a lot more for others that have to deal with your death. And you also leave all the positives. Suicide is selfish, but it’s still understandable why some commit it. They have been so beaten down by the world, its inhabitants, people they thought they were close to, and so many other things. They feel as if they do not belong. Anywhere. This can give them the view that suicide is actually a selfLESS act, which is completely the opposite of what it actually is. They remove themselves from the world because they feel as if they are not wanted, in a way “doing the dirty work” themselves so that others don’t have to. It makes you wonder how fucked in the mind these people were, and it’s terrifying to think how corrupted they became. Do not ever get to this point. How? Talk to people. Or at least try. If there is nobody there to stop you, then… yeah. Establish relationships with someone. Your head is often the only driving force for suicide, so to have another mind that can think straight will literally save your life. No matter what you think, there will always be someone out there who wants you in their world. Always. No matter how fucked you think you are, no matter how useless you think you are, no matter how problematic you think you are, no matter. You are wanted. You are loved. You are a human, too. You matter. Suicide is not an escape. Death is not an escape. Death is a tragedy, and suicide is horrifying. Your death will only cause problems and suffering and questions. If you truly hate your existence, the only things that will change that are others. You cannot function alone. Talk to somebody, they might just save your life.

11/8/2020

Critique

These are… some of the worst things to say to someone considering suicide. For one, you’re saying their death will only cause problems, which isn’t exactly a motivating factor to staying alive. Then you criticize them for ever thinking it was a viable escape while pretending to acknowledge their justification. Then you provide a half-assed “solution” that just sounds like more criticism for not doing better in life. Then you provide a promise that you cannot possibly guarantee or enforce. And then you reiterate that their death would only cause problems. Not ONCE do you acknowledge their perspective, their feelings, their experiences, all in favor of telling them to just “snap out of it.” This is all horrible advice.

If someone you know is seriously considering suicide, talk to and listen to them, acknowledge their feelings without judgement. Encourage them to seek professional help or call the lifeline yourself on their behalf in extreme circumstances. But by all means, make them feel heard and understood and cared for, not judged or lectured.

3/15/2025

Chapter Ten: Loneliness

1:10:1 How To Dwindle Its Power

Pain from loneliness is a biological system built into our brain. It was made to help us realize when we are being too selfish in our tribal groups. Back then, being alone meant death, so our brains adapted to feeling pain when alone so that we may not be alone. So yeah, loneliness will never stop, no matter how many friends you have. But how do you make it happen less or shorten the duration of the feeling? Again, talk to people. You cannot function alone. This was much more prevalent back then, when being alone meant death. You literally could not live alone. If you are connected with people all the time, then loneliness happens much less. You genuinely feel cared about while loneliness is the opposite. But what about the duration? How do you shorten the duration of the feeling when you’re already feeling lonely? This is a much harder question to answer. If you feel lonely, you are lonely. Whether or not you want to talk to people or not is personal - some people do it because they recognize they are lonely and want to escape the feeling, and others don’t talk to people because they do not feel cared for, so remain lonely for longer and in more pain. Here’s the main idea: if you can talk to people, do it. Loneliness is being separated from people, so the faster you connect, the faster loneliness fades. But if you can’t talk to people? Then wait. Act as little as possible based on your loneliness. If you feel your friends don’t care about you and you’re considering breaking ties, stop. (This can easily be different in many situations. Sometimes your “friends” really don’t care about you, so you should break ties. If you’re considering this, base things off of FACT, not assumptions. If they are genuinely assholes to you, then break ties. If not, don’t.) Don’t act upon your loneliness, that’ll only make things worse once you escape. Wait for the feeling to fade because you’ll eventually crave human connection again.

11/8/2020

Critique

You make a lot of strange claims here.

“It was made to help us realize when we are being too selfish in our tribal groups.”

Selfishness isn’t the root cause of loneliness. Loneliness is caused by a disconnect with others, which can form through a variety of reasons, and sometimes without a reason at all.

“But how do you make it happen less or shorten the duration of the feeling? Again, talk to people.”

Talking to people doesn’t always help. It is entirely possible to feel lonely while surrounded by others for a variety of reasons, and sometimes without a reason at all.

“But if you can’t talk to people? Then wait. Act as little as possible based on your loneliness.”

Wait for what, exactly? Why would you take a passive approach? To not do more damage? How about meditating? What do you accomplish by feeding on your misery?

This whole thing is structured very strangely. If you truly want to minimize loneliness, for one, develop a better relationship with yourself. Find satisfaction from within. Learn to enjoy your time alone. This takes some time to get used to and I don’t have a well structured method to accomplish it, but if you can enjoy instead of dread solitude, then you’ve already solved 90% of loneliness’s problems. And secondly, work on developing quality relationships with a small number of people. The people you resonate with, who have your back, who get you, if any. When it comes to relationships, quality > quantity. But notice how this comes second to the relationship with yourself. Not that this is easy to do, but it is something you should be pursuing without exception.

3/15/2025

Critique

See Solitude in Existential Navigation and Loneliness in Intrapersonal Dynamics for much better advice.

I’m sure you’ve noticed a pattern of me not providing any advice or solution to any problem and just saying “talk to people” like that changes anything. Quite often, your external circumstances will not be the way you want them to be, and there is only so much you can realistically do about that. Relationships are the most difficult part of the human experience, and I consistently oversimplify them throughout all of my past writings.

7/21/2026

Book One Finale

You haven’t walked too far to turn around. Changes can always be made to your life, you don’t have to fear those changes. They may be scary, but you’re doing a disservice by not making changes to help yourself in the future. Make those changes and maintain them. How? Give yourself a theme. They should be about a season long. The name should be broad, like Season of Reading or Health or Novelty. I’m doing Season of Risking right now, where I take more risks because I am too reserved. How do you actually go about doing your theme, though? Look at the small actions you take. If you’re waiting in line for something and you’re in the season of reading, instead of checking your phone for whatever, pull out that book or digital book. It’s the small actions that count towards changing yourself. When you change your actions, you change your thinking by thinking about your thinking. And that changes your thinking. It’s the small things that count. The theme names are broad for a reason, you are meant to define them and make choices based on those definitions. By being broad, you never feel like you have failed because there isn’t a specific goal. I’ve defined risking as taking opportunities and going through with them if they do not have an obvious downside. For my season of risking, my choices can be as little as just talking to my teachers in class a little longer, or simply talking simply to somebody I am unfamiliar with. My last season, this Fall, was the season of pushing. I wanted to make junior year the year I worked my ass off, so pushing to me meant pushing myself past my limits consistently. I got homework and don’t wanna do it? I do it anyway at that time. I took classes that I knew I wouldn’t do well in just to try and I’m still in those classes. This season kinda got out of hand sometimes, so I had to find a balance. Your season name should be broad and resonate with your head, then you simply choose the small choices differently.

11/13/2020

Critique

Have an original opinion for once CGP Grey copycat

This entire verse is just a rehash of this video. Watch it instead of listening to my dumbass.

https://youtu.be/NVGuFdX5guE?si=xmItyv0lSRfIypW2

3/15/2025

Critique

I’m gonna be honest, I’ve literally never actually done this. Life is often too complex to focus on one overarching theme. If it works for you, great, but I don’t know why I’m advocating for it considering I’m literally just copying someone else’s idea that I have no experience with.

So I don’t really know how to feel about this, considering I’m not a person that needs a structure like this to change. All I can really say is to try it out and see if it works for you. But at that point, again, just watch the video linked above since literally almost everything I said is copied directly from it.

7/21/2026

Levitikyles Q & A: How do you resist temptations?

This question is kind of personal and situational. Something that has worked for me is to have others keep you in check. They can be there to support and encourage you. By having other people to respect, you feel guilty by going through with temptations. And if you lie to their faces about what you’ve done, you’re just destroying the whole purpose. You can also try to distract your mind from whatever the temptation is with video games, music, a workout, whatever. Just get your mind off it and the feeling should weaken or fade. You could also try to make giving in against your ideals. If you really believe you shouldn’t do something, you’re less likely to do it. Personally, I am against drugs and alcohol and that shit. I know I’m never going to do them because it’s against my ideals, and I respect my ideals. Nothing good ever happens from doing stuff like that, so I’m not going to get involved with it, no matter how “good” it feels or whatever. In this situation, I don’t need to tell others about this because they are MY ideals and I haven’t had any issues. Some temptations you need to tell others about because you are already struggling with them. That is a more personal situation so I won’t touch on it much. Here is the main idea; if you are struggling with temptations, the best way to resist them is by resisting them with others. That way, if you fail, you feel like you fail yourself and others, so failure hurts much more. If it’s on your mind and you’ve already spoken to others, then distract your mind from it. Make the temptation against your ideals if you really never want to do it again. And remember, it’s okay to fail. Just because you have doesn’t mean you should give up. The real fight isn’t how long and hard you can fight for, it’s if you can keep picking yourself up even though you’re getting your ass kicked. Failure is normal. Don’t use it as an excuse to give up.

11/4/2020

Critique

Yeah, okay, I can get behind this. It’s a very broad question to answer so this is probably one of the best general things you can recommend.

3/15/2025

Critique

How about a better idea: you shouldn’t NEED to resist temptations. Don’t even give yourself the option so there is nothing to resist. This is obviously a case by case basis and isn’t this simple, but in general, slowly reducing the quantity of whatever you’re indulging in is the most sustainable.

12/27/2025

Critique

See Life-Styling in Personal Growth for better advice.

Also, again, I personally have never done this. Outside of asking people to remind me of things, I have never asked people to hold me accountable for anything. I’m not really comfortable with doing that, although abusing social pressure to get you to resist something you know you shouldn’t do is effective. However, that doesn’t mean you won’t just lie about it or find a way around it.

If you want to resist temptations, only you can enforce that. There are many different tools you can utilize, but ultimately you have to figure out what works for you. Furthermore, it’s worth thinking about why you’re tempted by that thing in the first place, because it’s usually just a coping mechanism for something else.

7/21/2026

Stories From an Advocate

A brief transitional period chronologically between Levitikyles Book One and Book Two. These writings are still on theme with Levitikyles but stretch a bit more freedom with what they cover.

Timeframe: November 2020

Index

Your Potential

What are you capable of?

Effort

How do you work hard?

The Not So Subtle Art of Building A Good Person

How do you become a good person?

Sleep

How do you get better sleep?

Writings

Your Potential

You are capable of so much. Please believe that. Take me for example - always in pursuit of self betterment, I’ve completely changed who I am in a few years. I still got shit to learn, but that’s okay. You always got shit to learn. Be content with what you have learned, but also want more. Always strive to make you the best that you can, you’re the one who has to live with yourself forever. In the end, you decide all your actions and think things and feel things. Are you satisfied with the person commanding your ship? If not, then train them. They cannot be replaced. Train them to become better, fine tune their skills, train them under pressure, guide them by logic and not emotion, whatever you need to do. You’re the pilot and the co-pilot. Train yourself to escape storms and turbulent waters and to evade natural predators. Train yourself to find calm waters and remain there, but don’t feel sad when the waters turn turbulent. Things in life change. Change is okay, you do not need to fear it. Welcome it. If you stay in the waters long enough, the turbulence will pass. Or you could try to find calmer waters, your choice. In a storm, get the fuck out. Storms don’t get better. And you could die. You are capable of guiding yourself, all you need to know is what you need to fix. How do you actually fix them? Levitikyles Book 1 finale. You can change. It’s the small choices that count. Shifting your mast a few degrees, going in a slightly different direction, whatever it might be. You can change. It’s not too late. You’re not too far out in the sea. You are capable of so much. Please believe that. These waters are open and scary, the fog descended so you cannot see where you are going. You cannot see the impact of your actions. and that’s okay. You don’t need to. Just pilot your boat. You can change. Please believe that. These waters are open, there are so many different directions to go. So be your pilot and co-pilot. Change.

11/13/2020

Critique

Using only metaphors to oversimplify life is an… interesting choice, to say the least. It results in me not knowing what the actual fuck you’re trying to say, because most of this has absolutely nothing to do with “your potential” but rather “your responsibility.” You’ve used all these words to say virtually nothing at all.

Not to mention, not everybody is “capable of so much.” There are a lot of factors at play in life and you cannot expect everybody to live up to that open-ended process.

3/16/2025

Critique

Dude just be better. Also PLEASE believe me. This sounds like a fucking religion.

Yes, you are probably more capable than you think in some areas, but you are probably also weaker than you thought in others. Yes, you are your pilot and co-pilot. But ultimately, it’s up to you to decide whwat to do about it. It’s your choice to decide where to go, your choice to better things or not, and your choice to accept things or not. That is how you cultivate your potential, and it will probably play out differently than you expect.

7/21/2026

Effort

Find a motivator. Does not matter at all what it is. A person, a promise, an object, whatever. What works for me is myself. I push my limits for the betterment of myself. You can too, just know what you’re working for. You gotta spend the rest of your life with yourself, so you want to like that person. The more you push your limits, the higher your limits rise, and the more you can accomplish. Limits take time to rise, they’re heavy, so be patient with your progress. By being heavy, they’re also easy to fall, so keep them up. How? Consistency. Consistently push yourself. This may seem hard, and it is, but remember what you’re working for. And with all this pushing, I need to bring something up. Breaks. Your physical muscles need time to rest before the next set of reps, same with your mental muscles. They need time to relax before the next set and time to rebuild before the next workout. Your mental muscles are already pretty strong because of the stresses our modern world puts on people. The problem is that you aren’t getting enough breaks. You need to have time where you’re not putting effort into anything, but I like to add: or at least fully enjoying what you’re putting effort into. That is how you rest. It isn’t sleep, you should be conscious, but you should feel at ease and relaxed. There will often still be things you need to do, but don’t worry about those things now. You’re resting now because you’re tired now, and so you put your full effort into the next tasks. And never be afraid to ask for help in this subject. You cannot function alone, and effort requires your functionality. Sometimes you’ll be extremely exhausted, and that’s okay. Take your time off. Our world doesn’t give a lot of time to rest, but that isn’t an excuse for not resting. Balance your time based on what needs to be done. You can figure out how you want to live, you just need to know how you want to live first.

11/15/2020

Critique

This is significantly more complicated than it needs to be. Motivation is unreliable while discipline and self control brings consistency. Develop discipline by staying consistent and take breaks to allow yourself to rest. That’s it.

3/16/2025

Critique

“Find a motivator. Does not matter at all what it is. A person, a promise, an object, whatever.”

A motivator cannot necessarily be literally whatever you want. If you place your motivation in anything you do not have control over, your motivation is contingent on something inherently unreliable. To be clear, that doesn’t mean you can’t be motivated by external factors, but you should not be motivated because of them. A relationship you consider important can be a source of motivation, but if it is dependent on the current status of the relationship (which will naturally change), then your motivation fluctuates as well. This isn’t necessarily a flaw, but it is something to keep in mind. Being motivated by yourself and what you want to do is much stabler than anything else.

As much as I appreciate you trying to explain how to cultivate effort, this is not something that can realistically be explained. Part of life is defining what matters to you and learning to work towards it because it matters, and that depends on what exactly matters to you and what kind of person you are. What you’ve said here isn’t necessarily wrong, I just think it will only resonate with the people who already understand it and not necessarily the people who need to hear it.

7/21/2026

The Not So Subtle Art Of Building A Good Person

There are a few layers to being a good person - your speech, your actions, your appearance, and your relations. Let’s review each one individually.

Starting off with speech, the foundation, just don’t be a fucking cunt. In other words, be careful with what you say. If you’re just being flat out rude or an asshole, even if it’s for a joke, you might want to reconsider. There is no situation where being rude is going to be a good thing. Carefully craft your wording, the changing of one or two words can invoke an entirely different response from the recipient of said words.

Next up, actions. Probably the most important piece right beside speech. You may say “good” things, but none of it matters unless you actually go through with your words and prove you standby them with your actions. If actions are a structure, then words are the foundation. Without the structure, you just have words. Without the foundation, nobody knows what the fuck you’re doing. If you claim something, actually prove you believe that claim. If you claim after actions, it just looks kinda suspicious. And of course, just act selflessly. Others first, always. Selflessness is respected greatly, so obtain it.

Then comes appearance. Kinda similar to actions and words, but not really. If words are the foundation and actions the structure, then your appearance is what holds everything together. The support. They aren’t exactly necessary, but they’ll keep the structure together through a storm. Appearance is how you identify yourself and how others identify you. Appearance is how you display who you are. Looking one way and acting the other doesn’t really fit, so support would be weak. Find a good chord. And of course, have at least some level of decency for yourself.

Lastly, relations. If words are the foundation, actions the structure, and appearance the supports, then relations are how all of that affects the environment around it. The environment flourishes around you, or at least is not damaged. Not many people dislike you, and the ones that do are for a very broad reason. Ex. “They’re annoying.” or “They’re weird.” or “They don’t shut the fuck up.” or “They’re really fucking stupid.” or… you get the point. With relations, every piece of your foundation, your structure, and your supports stand out. They can be exaggerated as well. The environment around you pretty much defines you to an extent. The environment closest to you are the people you want to be associated with, and the further out you go, the less. If you’re surrounded by mountains, it’s harder to read you. By rivers, harder to reach you. By open land, it is harder to feel guaranteed with you. You can’t let everyone in or keep everyone out, so you must find a balance of mountains, rivers and land that guides those you like in, and keeps those you don’t away. Do not rush constructing these paths, you have the rest of your life to make an impact on those around you and the rest of your life to build your tower tall enough to have an impact that extends far beyond your natural life. Just remember - the environment defines you as much as your foundation, structure and supports do combined. You get to decide whether or not you want the environment to flourish or decay for your own benefit.

11/16/2020

Critique

What makes a “good” person is not well defined. Nobody is wholly good and everybody is good in some way. Although this writing isn’t pointless, I wouldn’t recommend chasing goodness, but rather authenticity. It’s a lot easier to be good when you know who you are and what you stand for. Then again, goodness is somewhat subjective and depends on context. So the whole argument is kind of… pointless, if you ask me. Although your environment metaphors towards the end are excellent.

It’s an interesting piece, but it just fails to capture the varying contexts and complexities of life. You are attempting to create a universal moral and ethical framework for a world that doesn’t give a shit. It just doesn’t work in practicality.

3/16/2025

Critique

I just find this strange.

For one, goodness is not determined by speech. It is entirely possible to be an asshole to people while actively benefitting society at large. Does that make you a good person? What about someone being rude while pursuing a noble goal because whatever they’re chasing doesn’t play by the rules? Some conflict is justified. Some conflict is noble. Claiming all conflict is the mark of a bad person is ignorant. Also, you don’t even discuss delivery. A lot of the time, it’s not what you say that is the most important factor, but how you say it. That is a huge part of speech, and you don’t even bring it up.

Furthermore, actions are objectively more important than speech. You can say literally whatever the hell you want, but your words don’t have direct consequences like your actions do. I’m not sure why you put speech first because of this. Also, a good person doesn’t prioritize others always. A good person knows what they need to prioritize at any given moment, even if that means themselves, even if that means something more important than being polite, and even if that means causing conflict. Claiming all good people always prioritize others is ignorant.

Also, uh… what the fuck is appearance, exactly? How you identify yourself? Is that how you say you identify yourself, or what your actions are? How others identify you? Is that who others say you are, or who others think you are based on your actions? All you’re saying is that appearance is speech plus actions, but that makes it irrelevant to discuss. Furthermore, you can’t necessarily control what other people think of you, and so good people aren’t necessarily those who others think are good. Claiming that all good people are well respected and appreciated by others is ignorant.

Finally, again, relations are not something that can necessarily be controlled. If people dislike you, even if you’re a saint, you can’t enforce that they dislike you for a broad reason. Sometimes you just have different values, incompatible personalities, conflicting communication styles, etc.

I still agree with the critique above, I just wanted to rip apart the argument too.

7/21/2026

Sleep

I haven’t really dealt with many sleep problems so this will be a quick one.

Keep a consistent waking time. Only ever varying by an hour at most. No matter when you go to sleep, wake up at the same time. Your body will adapt to feeling awake at that time, you’ll only start getting tired a bit earlier, but by then you’d have already made it through the day. If you want, you can strive for a consistent go-to-bed time, but this is a lot harder to achieve in our current situation and isn’t really necessary. A consistent waking time is the psychological anchor point that keeps you connected with the world.

Keep sleep boundaries. Your bed should be where you go to sleep, and go to sleep ONLY. Not to think about how you can’t. If your mind won’t yield in 30 minutes, leave. Come back another time. Your bed is where you go to sleep ONLY, not to think about how you can’t. Almost nothing else should take place on your bed 😏. If you keep the borders tight and consistent, it will be easier to fall asleep every night because that’s where your mind prepares itself to sleep.

White noise or fans work well. At least for me. Something to quell other noises so you can focus on sleeping and a low hum to lull you to sleep. I’ve been sleeping with fans for years, and I’ve had great success with them. It’s not really the coolness I’m after, but the low hum to drown out other noises. Tricks your brain into hearing silence.

11/17/2020

Critique

Pretty solid advice. Sleep is important, make it a priority and respect its boundaries. Consistent waking time is underrated but also difficult to maintain, but you couldn’t understand that when you wrote this, so I’ll cut you some slack.

3/16/2025

Critique

I want to add another bit of advice: sometimes, the best thing you can do to fall asleep is try to stay awake. It sounds counterintuitive, but if you’ve ever fought to stay awake during a time where you where you kept slipping away, you’ll understand why this works. That’s not to say you should turn on all the lights and drink coffee. But you can stay in bed with your eyes open and slowly feel them getting heavier while you fight it just a little.

Ultimately, there’s plenty of sleep tips out there, and it largely depends on what works for you, but here I’m trying to be as universal as possible.

7/21/2026

Levitikyles Book Two

Tone of Mind

Unplanned and unorganized life advice from someone not qualified to give it. Tone of Mind is focused on adjusting perspective.

Lost interest in Levitikyles, a sense of misdirection, and a realization of under-qualification resulted in the justified death of Levitikyles midway through this book.

Timeframe: November - December 2020

Index

Chapter One - Personal Power

• 2:1:1 - No Solutions, Only Trade-Offs
• 2:1:2 - Sometimes Thought is a Burden
• 2:1:3 - Maybe It’s You

Chapter Two - Mental Challenges

• 2:2:1 - Be There, and Be There For
• 2:2:2 - Failure is Chosen, Not Given

Chapter Three - Physical Challenges

• 2:3:1 - Prime With The Physical
• 2:3:2 - Sometimes Hesitation is a Burden

Chapter Four - Past, Present, and Future Relations

• 2:4:1 - Everybody Is An Individual
• 2:4:2 - You Are an Individual Too

Chapter Five - Too Much (Overwhelmed)

• 2:5:1 - Take A Breath
• 2:5:2 - Temporary Silence

Chapter Introductions

Chapter One: Personal Power

It’s time for a change. Time to stop succumbing to the stupid shit in life, time for a reckoning. I am in control of my life. I determine my actions. They don’t determine me anymore. Now, how the fuck do I go about doing this? How do I raise my personal power? With pride.

Chapter Two: Mental Challenges

Mental challenges can be very chaotic and confusing. How the hell do you help the chaos in your own head? Do not give in. Never give in to the voices in your head. Honesty with yourself is a necessity, so never leave it behind.

Chapter Three: Physical Challenges

You can always push through. It’s going to be hard as shit, yeah, but that’s the point. Pushing your body to its physical limits persistently is how you perfect your image. It will never be perfect, but you can always improve it. You can always push through.

Chapter Four: Past, Present and Future Relations

How would you like to interact with those around you? There are many things that make an impact, and many ways people can interpret those things differently. Because of the infinite scenarios possible, you should always strive to just be yourself. Pretending to be different won’t work, people can interpret it differently. Being true to others about who you really are is how you gain their real trust and strengthen relations drastically. People see your honesty, and people are attracted to honesty. This chapter will go through how to remain who you really are despite many factors begging you to change.

Chapter Five: Too Much (Overwhelmed)

It’s okay. You’ll get through this. Let me guide you, I’ve been there. You’re going through a tidal wave of thoughts, feeling overly pressured by the sheer amount of tasks required of you, too many inputs, too little output… what the fuck do I do? Keep your eyes on me, let me help you through the storm. I can take you to higher ground.

Verses

Chapter One: Personal Power

2:1:1 No Solutions, Only Trade-offs

There are no solutions, only trade offs. Accept this now or choose not to. In order to make time for something, you have to sacrifice time from something else. Planning to make time for new things without first considering what you’ll have to sacrifice is a recipe for failure. I’ve developed the ability to have much care and feeling towards others, but in return, I’ve lost care and feeling for myself. I could go on and on with imaginative and real examples, but it’s not necessary. There are no solutions. Only trade offs. I can’t be all charity, no greed, I need things to keep me going, keep me motivated, keep me balanced. Some trades will be better than others, some worse. You can’t definitively tell which one is which before the result. If you want more of one thing, you’ll have to have less of another. That’s just how life works. Time doesn’t stop and isn’t infinite, it is constantly moving forward. This is why there are no solutions. Only trade offs. Accept this. Accepting the simple truths of life that cannot be changed and basing your actions around them is critical towards growing your personal power.

11/22/2020

Critique

It’s funny how on-the-nose you were here despite the message going completely over your head. Did you expect to be happier by ignoring your personal needs in favor of prioritizing others? You had absolutely no balance despite claiming to “keep yourself balanced.” And then later you did the exact opposite and started caring only about yourself. Funny how life has a way of repeating lessons until you learn them, even if you can already explain them beforehand.

Solid advice.

3/16/2025

2:1:2 Sometimes Thought is a Burden

Just fuckin go out there, man! Get in over your head! You got so much power with you, all that’s needed is to use it. Go fucking live. Stop trying to keep it safe. Be brave because fuck fear. Fuck anxiety. Fuck depression. Fuck all of it. Throw yourself out there, who gives a fuck if you bounce right back? Go back again, you’re stronger this time. You got so many things you wanna do, so many desires, so many things you really want, right? So go. Who gives a fuck if you bounce right back? WHO GIVES A FUCK? Go. It’s your life, you either leave a legacy or not. You don’t want to be forgotten? Then go fuckin prove it. Lets fucking go.

12/4/2020

Critique

Bro. Calm the fuck down. You’re using emotion to chase a rational goal. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the two don’t exactly go hand in hand. This “advice” won’t work on any but the incompetent and the obedient.

Like you claimed in SFAA, consistency and discipline are important. If you prioritize those, there is no need for this bullshit.

3/16/2025

2:1:3 Maybe It’s You

Maybe this is your fault. Maybe not, but if you constantly reflect off of the mistakes you make, then you learn from them. Maybe it’s not the world, but you. Maybe you’re the problem. Just recognizing that is hard enough, let alone if it’s true or not. But that doesn’t matter. Reflect off your actions. If you never see any wrong you do, how do you know what is truly right? It’s hilarious how little control we have, I have, you have. The most control you have is with what you do. So do the right thing. But, if you don’t even know what the right thing is, they how the fuck are you going to do the right thing? Learn from mistakes. Don’t be angry at them, be angry with them. Use drawbacks as momentum. You can’t shoot an arrow without pulling the string back first. Maybe it’s you.

I was listening to someone give a speech

Something ’bout the knowledge of enlightenment he reached

And as my eyes glazed over in my seat

He approached and he asked if he could challenge my beliefs

I said, “By all means have at it”

Then he talked about the suffering and source of bad habits

How the emptying of mind is the challenge

And withdrawing from the world is the cure to all sadness

I said, “That all sounds like madness

Why have a life and then not be alive?

Why have a mind and then choose to be blind?

What you call wisdom is the fear that you hide

You cannot retreat from those demons inside

This is not peace, it’s a mask you adorn

This is not truth, it’s a trap, nothing more

And you’re too busy running from something you can’t ignore“

• Zack Hemsey, So Silent

You cannot hide from the world. YOU CANNOT HIDE FROM THE WORLD. You cannot hide from your problems. You cannot hide from your faults. You cannot hide from your actions. You cannot hide from your words. You cannot hide from your thoughts. You cannot hide from the world.

So… why are you trying?

So… what about you?

12/24/2020

Critique

Acknowledging that you might be the problem is a critical part of maturity. As for everything else in this verse, I have no idea what you’re trying to accomplish. People understand that they can’t hide from the world, but sometimes they need a temporary escape, also known as a BREAK. This is not “advice,” this is just “do better.”

3/16/2025

Chapter Two: Mental Challenges

2:2:1 Be There, and Be There For

You cannot function alone. This is further emphasized in this chapter. If your own head is fucked, you need somebody else to help you set it straight. Just someone that will listen is extremely helpful. Someone to spill your thoughts to, someone to empty your head with. They don’t have to give advice or anything, but just be there to listen to you. Everybody goes through shit, so it’s okay to talk about the shit you’re going through. There are more people than you think out there that are willing to listen to you. Remember 2:3:1 - When in deep struggle, focus on the physical. But that doesn’t mean neglect your mental hardships. Embrace them as a part of life. You can’t really think yourself to a better place. You’ll get through them, but if you don’t even know how, then that’s when others come into play. I’ve kept almost every single challenge to myself, and please believe me when I say this: it doesn’t work. Well, it can work, but it leaves you much worse off than you were before. Instead of trusting others with my thoughts, I’ve become incredibly individual. Incredibly alone. And when you don’t even like the person in control of your decisions, that’s where major problems can start to occur. That isn’t the end of the story, but that’s where I’ll stop for now. So please, if you’ve lost your head, just talk to someone. It’s so much better than letting shit echo around your head for much longer than it should.

11/27/2020

Critique

While having people to lean on is nice and helpful, you also need to be able to take care of yourself. This “advice” sounds more like taking advantage of others to solve your problems instead of dealing with them yourself. Yes, you want people to be there for you when you need it, but you shouldn’t rely on them for every challenge. Your life is your responsibility, just as much as their life is their responsibility.

3/16/2025

2:2:2 Failure is Chosen, Not Given

Yes, they are hard to recognize. Yes, they are hard to overcome. But you can handle them. Again, look at how far you’ve come so far. Who’s to say you can’t take on any more? Only you. Whatever you do, don’t isolate yourself. You can repair your head, but not alone. You can repair your mind, it’s not impossible. You don’t have to stay weak. These challenges are difficult and hard to get a grip on. But you can overcome them. If life is about improving who you are, then get the shit out of your head! It won’t be easy, no, but it will be worth it. It will be. Strive for honesty with yourself. True honesty. Dedicate time to getting shit done, but don’t be too hard on yourself. Don’t hate yourself, there is no true reason to do so if you think about it. There is no true reason to hate yourself. These will be challenging, but that’s how you learn from them. Don’t isolate yourself, either. This is a fight on your land but that doesn’t mean you can’t ask for help from allies, they’re your allies. If you fall, they’re threatened, too. This will be a rough fight, but you will only lose if you retreat. Keep fighting what you don’t want. The only way it’s going to leave is if you try to kick it out.

12/7/2020

Critique

This is literally just a jumbled mess of pep talk advice being relied upon by a metric fuck ton of assumptions. You don’t sound profound, you’re just regurgitating a ton of random ass advice that happened to work for you in a rather specific situation. No idea what you’re trying to accomplish here.

3/16/2025

Chapter Three: Physical Challenges

2:3:1 Prime With The Physical

When in deep struggle, focus on the physical. Something above the bare minimum to survive. Even if it’s just one push-up every day, that’s much better than nothing. Focusing on the mental is much harder, its grips aren’t as sturdy. Create a physical routine first, no matter how small or minuscule the routine is. Movement is very healthy for your brain and literally essential. Viewing the physical challenges, know why you are pushing yourself. Reaffirm the reasons for you doing this to yourself. Not 100% to improve your physical form, but to improve your overall form and head. Exercise will give you clarity which sorts your head. Prime with the physical when in deep struggle. You may not like it, but that’s kinda the point. Just something above the bare minimum. You ain’t gonna fail it this time.

11/25/2020

Critique

Although I agree with you, this is very jumbled. Please consider organization instead of stream of consciousness when attempting to advise others lives. See the Codex as a reference.

When dangerously apathetic or agitated, brains cannot really think themselves back to stability. Physical exercise is simple and brings brains back to baseline. That is a CGP Grey quote, alongside much of the advice I discuss in all of these past writings.

3/16/2025

Critique

Adding onto this, it doesn’t necessarily need to be considered exercise. Going outside for a walk for a least a few minutes is genuinely insanely effective considering how simple it is. However, I hate when people advise that, forgetting some of us live in stupidly inhospitable places. That’s when you can default to exercise. At the bare minimum, changing your environment for a few minutes is very effective as well.

7/21/2026

2:3:2 Sometimes Hesitation is a Burden

Just. Keep. Pushing. Just finish this set, then you can rest. Just one more lap. Just one more. You’re almost there, just keep fuckin going. This is the mindset you should obtain. You want to always be putting all your effort in. There’s a reason you get to rest. Of course, some activities will require different pacing, but then go at that pace at the bare minimum. There’s a reason workouts are structured the way they are. Even if you just started a few minutes ago, funnel that effort in. Not only will you reap physical benefits from the workout, you’ll also clear your mind and improve your mental toughness by going through strenuous activity. Don’t kill yourself during the workout, but consistently be putting effort. How? Just fucking do it. Find something that motivates you and work for that. You are capable of a lot more than you think, so go out there and prove that to yourself. Just. Keep. Going. It will be over soon, but not if you rest now and make the workout itself longer. Bigger sets, not more of them. Or both, who tf cares. Put in a consistent effort that is always improving. Find something to motivate you. Maybe something that already does. Do you want to improve yourself in some way? Then go out there and prove that to yourself.

12/10/2020

Critique

This is literally just a jumbled mess of pep talk advice being relied upon by a metric fuck ton of assumptions. You don’t sound profound, you’re just regurgitating a ton of random ass advice that happened to work for you in a rather specific situation. No idea what you’re trying to accomplish here.

3/16/2025

Chapter Four: Past, Present, and Future Relations

2:4:1 Everybody is an Individual

Relations: the way in which two or more concepts, objects, or people are connected; a thing’s effect on or relevance to another.

The effect you would like to have on others is up to you. How you would like to treat others is up to you. You’re not limited in any way, you only set limits for yourself based on how you’d like to affect others. However, despite all of this, you cannot control the effect you have. You can try to exemplify who you are, but others will perceive you differently. No matter how perfect others think you are, there will be others that hate you. And vice versa. Everybody is an individual. Remember that. You can’t treat everyone the same. Every single person is different from others in significant ways, some of which you’ll never understand, and that’s okay. You don’t need to understand every bit of who someone is because you’ll never truly know everything about them. Hell, they don’t themselves. We can use me as an example. I write these Levitikyles to emphasize my charity and kindness, but I keep the advice broad. Why? You aren’t all the same. One verse may have a profound impact on someone, but mean nothing to the next. I keep the advice broad to encourage you to speak with me one-on-one if you want to. If I can involve myself deeper into your life, I can guide you on a deeper level. But I’m not going to force myself into your life. I’ll make offers and accept offers, but it’s your decision whether or not you’d like to speak with me. Everyone is an individual, I cannot assume you all view me the same or even care about what I have to say. I am simply a resource, not someone you’re required to follow. Hell, I don’t even use a lot of my advice. What I am trying to say with this verse - nobody is the same. Never, ever treat people as part of a whole. They aren’t, everyone has their own personal life and experiences and identity. Everybody is an individual. Remember that.

11/27/2020

Critique

Although I agree with you, this is very jumbled. Please consider organization instead of stream of consciousness when attempting to advise others lives. See the Codex as a reference.

Everybody is an individual. What you decide to do with this information is up to you.

3/16/2025

Critique

Considering when you wrote this, this is actually quite profound. There is a lot of “they should do X” going around in the world nowadays, and reminding others that everyone is still their own person with agency is important.

12/27/2025

2:4:2 You Are an Individual Too

They don’t determine who you are. You determine who you are. Don’t let others decide how you act, that is always ultimately up to you. Don’t let others decide who you are because you are yourself, you are an individual, too. Others should treat you as such. You can take pieces you like of others, but don’t let an individual control you as an individual. Don’t let someone else define who you are. Don’t get so fed up with somebody else. Don’t rely on someone for what you decide to do. We have to grow as individuals and as a team in our life, but individuals first. That’s my opinion. It might make more sense to learn teamwork first because groups of people will always be more powerful than an individual, but what the hell happens when you’re a teamwork-oriented person that has to face an entirely individual challenge? Individual-oriented people can still work together, just not as effective as teamwork-oriented. But teamwork-oriented find it almost impossible to handle an individual challenge. Just my opinion though. So don’t rely on others for yourself. Just like others are individuals, so are you.

12/15/2020

Critique

Although I agree with you, this is very jumbled. Please consider organization instead of stream of consciousness when attempting to advise others lives. See the Codex as a reference.

You are an individual too. Be authentic.

3/16/2025

Critique

This “advice” is interesting, but it’s also very much common sense while also providing nothing of substance. I don’t really make any absolute claims regarding relationships, which is good, but I also don’t really discuss anything important or consequential. See Authenticity in Social Positioning for better advice.

7/21/2026

Chapter Five: Too Much (Overwhelmed)

2:5:1 Take A Breath

Take seven steps back. Look at every factor contributing to how you feel. And I mean every single one. This can be scary, but you need to understand the factors before you can change them. If you would like, simply stare and think for a while. Or don’t think. It doesn’t really matter. A pause to life can be very helpful sometimes, don’t be afraid to press that button. Then, figure out what you’re going to do about each factor. Having a stable set of plans with easy steps to follow is critical in pulling yourself and your life together during this moment. You might be overwhelmed by just how much you have to do, but that’s okay. Everyone gets overwhelmed. You’ll get everything done. Just know what you need to do. Once you have ideas on what to do, let it settle in your head. Just think about it for a while. Or don’t think. It doesn’t really matter. As long as you have a better understanding of what you have to do, the better. If you can, try to find something to motivate you. Normally, I use something like “By going through this, you’ll become tougher. So actually go through it, dumbass. Can’t learn something from nothing.” I’m aware of the challenge and aware of the destination, so I put them together to make me push myself through. And if it doesn’t look great on the other side, who cares? As long as I pushed through hard af and actually got through, then it’s over. I learned from the experience. I still became tougher, I just didn’t get the best ending. But that doesn’t matter. Effort over result. When you’re overwhelmed, your prime target should be pushing through. Getting to the other side. You want it to be over, so fuckin move!! You won’t get anywhere by sitting still. But you also need time to sit still. You need rest in order to move, so fuckin rest as well!! Find a balance that works for you. As long as you’re pushing, you’re making progress. And progress is all you want right now.

11/27/2020

Critique

This is literally just a jumbled mess of pep talk advice being relied upon by a metric fuck ton of assumptions. You don’t sound profound, you’re just regurgitating a ton of random ass advice that happened to work for you in a rather specific situation. No idea what you’re trying to accomplish here.

When you have a lot going on, step back, observe, come up with a plan, and get to it. As per usual, allow yourself to take breaks. That’s it.

3/16/2025

2:5:2 Temporary Silence

Use anything you have to hype you up. The more powerful you feel, the better. For me, what works best is music that either hits hard or has a very deep meaning. That means artists like grandson, who has music that hits very hard, and Zack Hemsey, who has music that has such deep meaning it makes you feel like you can take on an army alone. Anything to motivate you. Anything. You can spill your thoughts to anybody who will listen - and there are more people out there willing to listen than you think. I mean that because I know it’s true. There is a lot going on in your head right now, anything that helps you empty your head of unnecessary things that are being amplified by other things is helpful. Anything that helps you clear your head and replace the chaos with order is helpful. But, with all this, I want you to remember these lyrics by Zack Hemsey from So Silent.

She was tripping on something that was laced in her tea

And she was high as a kite when she said she could see

Said, “We in the land of the free, but no freedom grows

And if we in a brave new world, where’d the brave all go?“

I said, “Hell if I know”

Then she told me that the problem is society

Everybody crippled by anxiety

No one is the person that they try to be

Then she said, “What we need are a few with a view that can bring a change through”

That we need less talk and more do

So I said to her, “What about you?”

So… what about you?

12/24/2020

Critique

This is literally just a jumbled mess of pep talk advice being relied upon by a metric fuck ton of assumptions. You don’t sound profound, you’re just regurgitating a ton of random ass advice that happened to work for you in a rather specific situation. No idea what you’re trying to accomplish here.

3/16/2025

Critique

I’m getting so tired of reading this shit dude. Can you please make a SINGLE rational claim instead of appealing to emotion for the billionth time? For fucks sake, you’re so stupid, but you think you’re so smart.

7/21/2026

Essays

Post-Levitikyles, somewhat random essays documenting my thoughts on certain things at the time, primarily documenting my struggle between selfishness and selflessness. These are generally much better written than everything that came before, but are still pretty terrible in comparison to the Codex.

Timeframe: 2020 - 2022

Index

Regret

A discussion on regret.

A Selfish Argument to Why Love is Irrelevant

Do you need love to be successful?

The Problem and the Other Problem with Self Isolation and Restriction

It is impossible to live without others.

A Selfish Argument to Why Love is Irrelevant (Revisited)

Do you need love to be successful? To be happy?

Complex (Simplified) Social Relations

Does it matter who you are friends/partners with?

Writings

Regret

“No regrets.” They say. To me, this is fucking bullshit. Ofc you’re going to have things you regret. That’s just how life is. You’re never going to think every single choice you made was the better choice. That’s just how life is. What I think this phrase is trying to say but failing miserably is to not dwell on your regrets. You cannot change what happened, but you can change what is happening. Use your past experiences as a guide instead of a burden. You’ll still regret things. That’s just how life is. But use those regrets as a guide to help you not make regretful decisions. Don’t hold onto them as if they are in the present and can still be changed. They can’t be changed. However, you can still change what is happening now. It’s up to what you think on what you decide to do. You might regret it, you also might not. Either way, you learn. So make a decision, don’t ponder so long that you never make the decision. I’ve done that thousands of times and those failed decisions count towards the vast majority of my regret. Do something. Life goes on and pulls you no matter how long you want to stay in the past. You have windows now, do something before they close. I want to repeat that. YOU HAVE WINDOWS NOW, DO SOMETHING BEFORE THEY CLOSE. Because I’ve let so many windows close in my face. Too many. And I won’t ever get a chance to open those windows again. You may regret the decision you’ve made, but at the bare minimum, be glad you made it. Be glad you got that closure. Because I haven’t gotten that closure thousands of times and it still hurts. But I use those experiences as motivation instead of weights. If only I could appreciate who I was, then I’d actually make decisions.

11/29/2020

Critique

Although I agree with you, this is very jumbled. Please consider organization instead of stream of consciousness when attempting to advise others lives. See the Codex as a reference.

You will have things you regret. Learn from them (if possible) and move on.

3/16/2025

Critique

Regret is an interesting topic for me to handle nowadays. Because, generally, we make the best decisions we can with the information we have. Regret surfaces when things don’t go as anticipated or desired, but how could we have known that? We did what we could with what we had, what else could we have done?

Yes, there are going to be times where you wish you had made a different decision. Yes, sometimes opportunities will close before you get to make a decision. But this is just how life goes because we are growing people. The entire philosophy of Adaptivism encourages you to learn from your regrets, but then move on and adapt to the new circumstances. To me, regret is as pointless as hope. It is the belief in a reality that no longer exists or that never did. While I will acknowledge the feelings, they’re not useful for anything in the way other emotions are.

This may sound ignorant, but it’s the only way I know how to discuss it since these feelings are not prevalent in my life and don’t drive any decisions. They can be put at bay with reasoning in the way other emotions can’t. So I just feel them, learn from them, and move on, because what else can I do? They fundamentally serve no other purpose.

7/21/2026

A Selfish Argument to Why Love is Irrelevant

For this argument, I am going to assume you would like to become as successful and skilled as possible in your field of choice. Also, pay close attention to my wording.

For your own personal success, love can be considered useless. You don’t need it at all to succeed, all you need is your own drive and the tools. Love could be a motivator, but that’s really it. This applies for both platonic and romantic. There is no real function besides being something to enjoy. On the other hand, your field of choice has just as much joy, but a much more practical function - that being success, survival, and sustainability. Love doesn’t give you anything except just that, love. So, for your own success, it can be considered useless.

Now, you still have to have some sort of love for yourself. That is required. If you don’t like the person running your operations, it’s unlikely you’ll really get anywhere. But love for others isn’t something you need. Would it help? Certainly. Do you need it to reach your goals? Probably not, but it all depends on how determined you are with what you have.

Obviously, I don’t fully follow this. If I did, I wouldn’t be in this server. So I don’t follow the platonic part. But I do follow the romantic part to an extent - I call it the “don’t initiate, don’t complain” mentality. What that means is that I’ll never initiate anything romantic and won’t complain that nobody initiates anything with me as a result. I follow this mentality simply because I don’t really care, there are other things I would rather focus on. Then again, I’ve never experienced it in the first place, so who am I to tell you it’s not worth my time? Who am I to try and change your mind with something I have zero experience in?

Just more polarizing food for thought.

5/26/2021

Critique

While you’re not exactly wrong, you are under the assumption that personal success will guarantee happiness alongside it, which it doesn’t. Fulfillment comes from both belonging and purpose, not one or the other.

3/16/2025

Critique

Biology would like to have a word with you.

Seriously. I mean, yes, technically, if you want to be skilled and “successful,” then you don’t need love. But I would argue that the quality of your relationships is included with the definition of “success.” And you not caring about romance? Yeah, okay, we both know that was a lie.

You’re not wrong, but you’re not making a point. If you want to be the best, devote everything to that one thing. If you want to be happy, prioritize all the things that are important to you. Those are two different versions of success, and you’re treating them identically.

12/27/2025

The Problem and the Other Problem With Self Isolation and Restriction

To clarify, I am defining self isolation as actively isolating yourself from others and restriction as actively restraining yourself from communicating with others on any level, but commonly on an emotional level.

I have dug this hole myself both intentionally and unintentionally throughout my life. And I have done it again recently, starting in August 2021 and ending some time in December 2021. The purpose of this action was to develop my own identity and begin disregarding the opinions of others as I felt as if I listened to others too much instead of standing up for my identity. I felt as if I was simply becoming what others wanted me to be, so I forced myself to not be aware of the expectations of others in order to rebuild my identity. On paper, this sounds like a decent idea. Struggle is to be expected, but overall, this sounds okay.

It’s not.

1. Your self esteem and confidence crumbles.

When you have nobody to talk to about your thoughts and feelings but yourself, it’s easy for those thoughts to echo in your head and drive you crazy. You begin to feel locked in a prison you made but don’t want to leave because you feel like you deserve the pain you are giving yourself. This is not how you should go about rebuilding your identity. I felt like a shell of a human even though I had created an extra shell. Personally, I would say that the pain of having nobody to turn to when you need someone is some of the most devastating I have ever experienced. Why? Because of

2. The deeper the hole you dig, the harder it is to climb out.

The pain continually gets worse until eventually you get desperate. That desperation may just save you, or it might drag you further down. You may feel empowered and done with hurting yourself or you may feel like you deserve your pain. It depends. But that is what makes this pain so overwhelming - the fact that most of the time, you don’t want to climb out of the hole you dug. Then you start fabricating plausible-sounding (at the time) but totally bullshit reasons to rationalize why you are hurting yourself like this, “Nobody cares about how I feel anyway.” “I’m not a good friend anyway.” “What goes around comes around. I deserve this.” etc. etc. etc.

So why am I even talking about this? Well, I can see many of you have this exact problem. And I’m not going to say some dumb shit like ‘oh it’s because I care so much’ - no. I’ll be flat out, it’s just annoying to see people talk down to themselves for a reason they made up. And it’s even more annoying to know that they actually believe that. So even though I can’t give a flat out solution, hopefully I’ve clarified some things and made some of you realize how absurd the reasons are for treating yourself so poorly. But there is one “solution” I can recommend: do not bottle everything up. Obvious, right? So don’t do it! I get it’s much harder than that, I’ve been there, but nobody thinks as low about you as yourself. People aren’t bothered when you just vent for a while. They might not know how to help, but they have already helped just by existing. Being afraid to let go of some things that have been plaguing your mind is like planting a bomb in your mind. It is going to blow up eventually if you don’t defuse it. Again, people are not bothered by you discussing what is on your mind. And if they are, then maybe they are just dealing with their own mind, speak to somebody else or come back later.

Self isolation and restriction is an extremely unhealthy thing you can do to yourself. Biologically, we are social creatures. Depriving yourself of something you need to stay sane is, well, you get the idea. To not bottle up your thoughts is some of the most generic advice out there, so follow it!

It will take time to learn and adjust to such a change. But it is worth it. You don’t deserve to restrict yourself from something you need. That’s all I have for now.

1/11/2022

Critique

While again, you’re not exactly wrong, you are under the assumption that everybody will have the same experience while alone, when in reality, many will treat it differently. Additionally, while you couldn’t understand it at the time, you had a terrible relationship with yourself, which caused you to despise solitude, and thereby praise attention.

Have relationships with others, but prioritize the relationship with yourself. You are the most important person in your life. If you can’t peacefully exist by yourself for some time, then your life will be miserable no matter what relationships you have.

3/16/2025

Critique

LOL. You’re a funny dude, dude. If you understood why isolation was apparently so unhealthy, why did you continue to relentlessly pursue it for years? When was the last fucking time you vented to somebody? When was the last time you did any of this? It’s almost as if isolation is only a problem if you have a terrible relationship with yourself. Other than that, so long as your social needs are met, it’s not a problem if it’s genuinely a priority. Your self respect comes from you, not others, and you spent this entire argument believing it comes from others.

And obviously, of course restricting yourself from your social needs is a bad idea. But isolation and restriction are two different things, and you treat them identically.

7/21/2026

A Selfish Argument to Why Love is Irrelevant (Revisited)

What a great time to revisit this. I’m sure many of you have noticed the complete 180 on my personality since a year ago.

I’ve kinda been purging my life of most kinds of love in order to “focus on myself” and “develop my identity.” So, here we are. A year ago, I was a lot kinder and cared a lot more about people. What happened? Well, I was just doing it all selfishly. I acted so kind so frequently in an effort to get people to enjoy my company. Though I don’t have to be such a dickhead now, I view being an honest asshole as better than being loving in a fake and hollow way.

So, into the actual argument;

I’ve noticed a preconception that many people think it is required to have at least one close friend or partner in order to be happy. Not someone who you can tell everything to, (that’s unrealistic) but someone who you can truly trust and be your authentic self around without worry. Recently, I have been challenging this notion by ridding myself of all I would identify under that description in my life. And here’s what happened: I just stopped hiding my identity. I have no problem with putting my heart out there, regardless of the audience. What you see is what you get. You don’t need any kind of person to be happy. To be lonely and to be alone are two different things. Would having a close relationship with anyone improve my quality of life? Maybe, but it’s dumb of me to automatically expect it would. And also unrealistic given my jumpy nature.

Anyway, with cutting most kinds of love out of my life, I had reason to expect negative results. Which, to some of you, may be the case. Maybe you think I’m a worse person compared to who I used to be. But while you were judging me, I was realizing just how overhyped love is. Society in general has fantasized it to a degree where it feels necessary, which simply isn’t true. I’ve become so much more effective and feel like a real person since I cut out who I used to be. I mean, almost everything I did back then was so fucked. I just wanted to be accepted and appreciated and looked up to, and I even lied about giving a shit just to make you like who I was.

Maybe an argument could be made that since that is how I acted, I didn’t have any love to begin with, thus haven’t really cut out anything from my life. And if that’s what you want to believe, go ahead. I have no way to dispute it.

TLDR; I think love is overhyped and irrelevant to personal success. I used to use it as a tool to get my way, and now I no longer do and feel like a more authentic person, even if I am rude. But that’s just my perspective.

2/2/2022

Critique

You’re just making justifications for your own inability to obtain connection. Yes, love is overhyped in this day and age, but it’s also essentially required to function properly and, I don’t know, be fulfilled in life? I’m happy you’re focusing on yourself, but we both know damn well you are miserable. Stop lying to yourself and start looking for some balance. You don’t have to pick selfishness or selflessness, you can have both simultaneously.

3/16/2025

Critique

Interesting. You claim that, because you slashed your highest quality connections, that you became more authentic? That you became 100% honest with literally anybody because you didn’t care anymore?

I mean, I guess I get where you’re coming from. You don’t feel the need to filter yourself anymore. But have you maybe considered the purpose of those filters? Maybe losing them wasn’t a good thing.

At the end of the day, you’re just bitter, and this arc was unavoidable. But I find it interesting how you relentlessly claim to have a better life despite the fact that you feel more lonely than ever. It’s interesting to see your priorities change yet always remain the same.

12/27/2025

Complex (Simplified) Social Relations

This is probably going to be one the boldest takes I make yet. Discretion is advised. Or something.

I’ve been on every side. I’ve heard it all. People have talked shit about others to me, those people being talked shit about talk shit to me, sometimes about each other, and sure as hell people are talking shit about me. And I’ve talked shit about people, then talked shit about the people I was just talking to, then talked shit about someone completely unrelated, whatever. Point is, there’s a lot of shit talking going on. That’s just life. No matter what you do, there will be people who dislike you. Even people who like you will find things they dislike about you. Because any sort of perfection is impossible because of how nuanced and complicated people are. With this in mind, is it truly possible to find a perfect or near perfect group of friends or a perfect or near perfect partner?

No. Obviously not. This might come as a shocker, but it’s nevertheless true. In my opinion. So, with all this in mind…

To the root of the argument. It doesn’t matter who you are friends with or who your partner is. Of course, you should have higher standards when it comes to a partner, but that just makes sense. As long as you have the social approval of those around you, it doesn’t matter who you are friends with. Because nobody is perfect and nobody will ever come close and because people will always talk shit as a way of getting their frustrations out. Frustrations caused by the people they are talking shit about. Do not let what other people say about specific people define how you interact with them. This sounds obvious, but you’d be surprised how much other people influence your actions. Minimize their influence as much as possible. If you enjoy interacting with someone, but someone else doesn’t, are you going to let the second person convince you to stop talking to the first person? Or will you not bring up that you talk to that person? Or will you defend the first person? And does what you do even matter? Not really.

All of this is still a hard pill to swallow. We’ve all spent a massive chunk of our lives looking for the right people, the right people to identify ourselves with, the right people to grow and learn with, the right people to be loved by and to love with. To say that there are no right people and to give up looking feels too depressing to be true. And to an extent, sure. There are people you will get along with better than others. But as long as you get along, does it really matter? Why bother continuing to search for better when you already have someone whose company you enjoy sitting right next to you?

If there is anything you take away from this, it’s that nobody is perfect. Nobody comes anywhere close to perfect. So don’t go looking for perfect people. Again, sounds obvious, but you’d be surprised how much the search for perfect people subconsciously influences you. How many times have you asked something along the lines of “Is this person good enough?” And of course, there are people that you simply don’t get along with and or enjoy interacting with. So just don’t interact with them. But in my opinion, and from all the different people I have interacted with, it is almost impossible to define someone not worth interacting with. I’ve found it exceptionally difficult to find people I don’t like. Maybe that’s just a me thing, I don’t know. Point is, it’s hard to identify if someone is worth talking to or worth being friends with. A very simple way is to just evaluate if they make you feel better in any way. But ultimately, you’re the judge, so don’t look for other people’s opinions in this regard.

This is hard to accept. I understand. And let me emphasize, this is still simply my opinion. You may disagree with me in many ways and I have no problem with that. But I still think that what I have said is true. There are no perfect people, so don’t behave as if there are, and don’t go actively looking for them when you already have good people by your side. And social approval is part of your psychological needs (love and belongingness), so why bother overcomplicating things? It’s not hard to find people you vibe with. So find them, stick with them, maybe find more of them, and don’t worry about finding someone better. If they’re good, they’re good. There is no need for a great person or great people because none of them exist.

3/10/2022

Critique

I don’t really know how I feel about this. On one hand, the claims you make are not necessarily wrong. There is a lot of shit talking going on and it really doesn’t matter what side you’re on. But on the other, the conclusion you come to is misguided. Part of who you are is defined by the relationships between you and those you highly resonate with. To claim that resonance is nonexistent and that there is no point in pursuing it is an incredibly depressing worldview that doesn’t lead to anything beneficial. You’re right, there are no perfect people, but you’re also wrong, because there are people for us.

You don’t need relationships or people to be perfect. You just have to define when they’re worth it. There will be passion and there will be apathy, there will be agitation and there will be indifference. But to claim that because of this, the “who” is irrelevant, is to claim that people lack the ability to connect on any level deeper than surface.

While your argument has substance, it is missing a few quite major pieces of the puzzle.

3/16/2025

Critique

Okay, if you’re going to use examples to increase the strength of your argument, I’ll do the same.

You know those people you just don’t mesh with? The people that, no matter what, you just can’t get along with. Natural, right? Sometimes personalities just don’t go well together and that’s okay. That’s unavoidable if authenticity is a given.

It would then serve to conclude that the reverse is true. That there are people you mesh with really well. That, no matter what, you just get along with. Natural, right? Sometimes personalities just go well together and that’s okay. That’s unavoidable if authenticity is a given.

Now, I understand the real point of your argument. That most people fall in between those extremes, so it doesn’t really matter. But to then claim that nobody matters is misguided. There will be people you mesh with, people you don’t, and plenty of people in the middle. And the search for the extremes is often difficult. But they do probably exist. At the very least, there are people you will resonate with more than others, which invalidates your argument.

12/27/2025

Critique

“As long as you have the social approval of those around you, it doesn’t matter who you are friends with.”

Uh. What about like, racist people? What if they approve of you? I think that matters a little bit. What about people who are objectively unfair to others? Does that not matter? All you’re doing is saying that tribalism is unavoidable, and to therefore accept it. But that doesn’t make it okay, and that doesn’t guarantee tribalism is unavoidable in the first place. You’re justifying something that does not need to exist under the banner of “well it does, therefore it always will” which is silly.

Also, you literally acknowledge that people have preferences. But then you say that, because preferences exist, that they are irrelevant? Huh? That because you already have something you like, there’s no need to search for anything better? Why? That’s an incredibly depressing belief to have because you’re essentially saying that better doesn’t exist, despite the fact that you just acknowledged better does, in fact, exist.

And yes, nobody is perfect, and of course you’re going to have standards. But to admit that and then say “well, it’s still kinda hard to determine who is worth establishing a relationship with” just ignores the standards you literally just acknowledged. I mean yeah, it’s absolutely possible to end up friends with someone you previously hated by your own standards, but that’s not a justification to get rid of standards completely, it just means relationships are complicated.

Ultimately, you admit in the literal title of the argument that you’re simplifying social relations, which means admitting you’re wrong before you begin. You cannot simplify the most complicated part of the human experience just because you’re bitter and sad that you haven’t found the relationships you wanted. While your argument has some substance, every single conclusion you reach is misguided.

7/21/2026

Codex

Planned and organized life advice from someone at least somewhat qualified to give it.

Timeframe: 2025 - Present

The Codex is present writing, not past writing.