I hope

I hope you use the next opportunity to beat yourself up as chance to grow and practice acceptance instead. I hope you let yourself trust the possibility of merging your career and your passion, in your head for a minute even. I hope you get to enjoy the process as the end in itself. I hope you learn to use technology to make the world a less atrocious place, rather than to make your ego louder. I hope you let yourself try baking a really difficult dessert, paint a self portrait, eat that midnight snack, write a couple of sentences without the help of AI, scream at the sea, be unreservedly enraged for a day, dance with your friends, grow a plant from its seed.