Carcosa Bound

It's hard to be generous when you're poor. Like, generous in a way that actually does anything.

Generous with your family when you have no time and no energy.

Generous with your attention, when you're constantly distracted.

Generous with financial support, when you can't pay the bills.

Generous with encouragement and advice, when your opinion doesn't actually matter.

Generous with showing up when your attendance adds no value.

Generous with your protection when you're weak and soft.

Poverty: the most common, closest thing to evil in this world

Poverty is the most prevalent evil in our beautiful World today.

Above all, poverty of the soul is the worst. Nothing grows, or can grow, there.

Some people have this condition, and it's a shitty wyrd. But as Heraclitus said, character is destiny.

A corrolary, then: the deep, hard work of persistent character change, self-learned, self-willed and enacted upon the self – has actual Cosmic importance.

The lotus blossoms in the swamp. The greater the trials, the greater the triumph. All it costs is everything you've got. We know all the lines, but this doesn't not make them true.

The solve: simple, not easy

To each of these, the solutions are roughly found in the same terrain – generate an abundance.

This means choosing growth cycles over doom loops – and shattering doom loops as soon as you see them emerging.

To be generous, first you much be generative.