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"oh, yeah. the reason nobody's looking out for you is because they don't believe you could possibly exist, statistically speaking. this isn't your fault. because of the lemon market problem. you're like a functional sports car in a scrapyard. you're a rounding error to them..."
"for them to take you seriously you're going to have to get out of the scrapyard. i know it's grotesque that I have to even suggest this to you. but it's not about you. it's about the nature of human perception. you gotta get to an actual racetrack and show them what you can do."
"even doing that will be a challenge. lots of people won't believe that you're capable, because you started out in a scrapyard. none of the people who are in charge of any of the spaces between the scrapyard n the big leagues, believe that someone like u could be in their midst"
"there are people who will accuse you of fakery, or cheating, all manner of other shenanigans, because your very existence violates their assumptions about reality. you could try and attempt some big dramatic gesture, but honestly odds are most ppl won't notice or care..."
"but that doesn't mean you should give up on yourself. it just means that you have to be rigorous, strategic, conscientious, patient. you will have to pick your battles and seize opportunities to win in conditions where your background will not be noticed or questioned"
"there are others. you are not alone. there have always been others. you do not see them now, for they keep to the shadows, as they must. but make it out just far enough and you will know each other by the roar of your engines. they are the living keepers of the wisdom you seek"
"keep your own soul intact. put the reps in even if nobody in the scrapyard understands you. the world is a big place, kid. just because this place doesn't know your worth, doesn't mean nobody ever will. and you know this, in your heart of hearts. you've done the reading."
"but it's hard. you're running on the fumes of faith with little to show for it. you worry constantly if the scrapyard is insurmountable. and if you're delusional. that worry itself is rooted in an honesty and humility that the other rusters have never concerned themselves with."
"and they're not wrong to. they are doing what is right for them, what is sensible for them, according to the logic of their lives, their environment. why should they burden themselves with caring for an alien, an aberration? why *should* swine care for pearls?"
"but you aren't an inanimate object. you are a child. a child has no choice but to love. the cygnet has no choice but to love the ducklings who abuse him- to crave the warmth of their approval, to pick apart his own feathers in hope of their acceptance. that is what children do."
"but you won't always be a child. in time, with practice, you will grow powerful. from the faint whispers of your forefathers echoing through time, you will learn wisdom. my wish for you is that, despite cruelty, despite neglect, despite despair... you will learn love." -fin
further reading pt 1, https://t.co/3lLFJWZnCu
Story: You suck at something It bothers you, so you work hard at it & many years, through lots of pain and failure You are now good at the thing & it comes easy to you You look around and you see that most people suck at this Why don’t they just get good?? Being good rules!
further reading pt 2 https://t.co/PEQnmKVEfj
