Friday, September 20, 2024
Insist on reality
Give up your illusions. Go forward with your values, your strength, and with objective truth.
It’s easy to pretend to yourself, and to go along with the pretenses of others. But that doesn’t take you anywhere worth going.
Step away from what’s merely easy, from what just looks good on the surface. Go with what’s truly good at the deepest level, what’s useful, enduring, and real.
Refuse to buy in to assertions that cannot stand rigorous scrutiny. Insist on reality, because when all is said and done, reality is what remains.
Put your assumptions to the test, and discard those that fail. Seek to learn from every interaction, from every experience, what works and what doesn’t, what is true and what isn’t.
Looks can be deceiving, as can narratives, expertise, feelings and impressions. Take it all into consideration, then do the difficult work to determine and to go with what is true, with what is real.
— Ralph Marston