Staying True and Pure
I didn’t need validation from people who couldn’t understand the depth of my essence.
The most important commitment you can make is to stay true and pure. At first this sounds simple, but it’s not.
When you navigate the insidious maze of social dynamics, you’ll come to realize that purity is one of the hardest things to maintain. When people latch onto trends and discard the original versions, staying true and pure requires a brute and intentional mindset. It must be genuine and it can’t be learned through anything but personal experience.
You’ll need to take a step back and let go of the urge to perform. Forget about all of that noise. It doesn’t concern you anymore. It’s over. It’s out the door. Release the desire to validate yourself through others. Staying true and pure requires a very strict type of discipline. It’s a spiritual practice that anchors you inward. People will come and go. They’ll exit as quickly as they enter. That’s just the way it works and you can’t let it phase you.
When these gatekeepers in Silicon Valley deemed me too unconventional and unfiltered for their tastes I was furious. They accused me of being “alt right” because they saw my approach as too rough around the edges. I delivered unusually high output, but my affect disrupted their precious image. Now let’s get real. This had nothing to do with politics, yet I was cancelled for being a “nazi” and I write this during Chanukah.
This loss of status and social mobility tormented me for longer than I’d like to admit. I was thrown me into the pit of an angry mob that hated me. (waves) The people who threw me into this pit were the same people who borrowed my work and stripped it of its soul, only to deem me unworthy of the circles they’d built on diluted echoes of my creations.
So how did I stay true and pure? Something in me changed after all of this went down and I took some time to reflect. I understood that I had to make a choice. I could either allow the bitterness to consume me or use my experience as fuel to deepen my commitment to truth.