On How It’s All Just a Game

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LIVES1
STATUSAWAKE
PRESS STARTA MAD CIRCUSIN SIX ACTS

Everything is a game.

A dirty little secret nobody wants to admit. The cars. The watches. The titles. The dream house with the dead lawn and the two and a half bathrooms. Toys. Every last bit of it.

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ACT I THE TOYS

Plastic distractions
for grown-up children.

Here’s the dirty little secret no one wants to admit: everything out there is just toys. The cars. The watches. The titles. The dream house with the dead lawn and the two and a half bathrooms.

Toys. Every last bit of it.

Toy
🏎
The Car
Fast · Loud · Pointless
Toy
The Watch
Counts down to nothing
Toy
The Title
A word on a business card
Toy
The House
Dead lawn · 2.5 baths
ACT II THE GAME

It’s a game, man. All of it.

A big, loud, expensive game with fake rules and real consequences. And the saddest part? Most people don’t even know they’re playing. They think the game is life.

Metric 01
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LIKE
Metric 02
+1
SQ. FT
Metric 03
+1
CLAP AT FUNERAL
♦ MORE LIKES ♥ MORE SQUARE FEET ♣ MORE CLAPS AT THE FUNERAL ♠ MORE TITLES ♥ MORE FOLLOWERS ♣ MORE HORSEPOWER ♦ MORE LIKES ♥ MORE SQUARE FEET ♣ MORE CLAPS AT THE FUNERAL ♠ MORE TITLES ♥ MORE FOLLOWERS ♣ MORE HORSEPOWER
They think winning means more.

More likes. More square footage. More people clapping at their funeral. Nobody ever asks why.

ACT III THE PLAYERS

Once you see it — really see it — it’s tragic laughable.

The Suits
Ranking · Out-Suiting
  • 01Navy Pinstripe9,120
  • 02Charcoal 3-Piece8,740
  • 03Bespoke Tom Ford8,501
  • 04Italian Cut7,995
  • 99Everyone, actually0
The Girls
Ranking · Out-Prettying
  • 01Filter No. 312,400
  • 02Lip Injection v211,890
  • 03Gym Selfie Arc10,210
  • 04Bali Backdrop9,705
  • 99Mirror alone0
The Influencers
Ranking · Selling Lies
  • 01“Passive Income”6 figs
  • 02“Morning Routine”4am
  • 03“My Tesla Story”leased
  • 04“Quit My 9-5”broke
  • 99The actual receipts

The suits trying to out-suit each other. The girls trying to out-pretty each other. The influencers selling lies they can’t even afford to believe in.

Everyone fighting to be king of a sandcastle
the tide’s already coming for.
⚠ ACT IV · THE AWAKENING ⚠

And here’s where it gets
DANGEROUS.

When you stop playing their game,
they call you crazy.
WHAT THEY SAY

You’ve lost touch.

“He’s not himself anymore.” “Something’s off.” “He used to have so much potential.”

THE TRUTH

You’ve finally found it.

Touch. Vision. Sanity. The clarity that terrifies the people still clutching their tickets to the show.

ACT V THE COSTUME

You can still play.
Just know what it is.

Buy the toys. Drive the fast thing. Wear the nice watch. It’s theater. You’re wearing a costume — not becoming it.

Hello, my name is
pretending — and I know it —
  • Play the game — with a grin.
  • Wear the costume — don’t become it.
  • Buy the toys — just don’t worship them.
  • Win the damn thing — if you want to.
— ACT VI · THE REAL THING —

The only thing real is what’s inside.

Will.

Unseen · Unmoving

Fire.

Hidden · Eternal

Silence.

Yours alone

That thing that speaks to you at night
when no one’s around.

The rest is set design.
CURTAIN CALL
So play the game —
hell, win the damn thing if you want.

But don’t be fooled. The toys are fun. They are not the point.

The point is how you play. How you walk through this mad circus with clarity, with fire, and a grin that says —

“ 🙂 ”
I know it’s all pretend.
And I’m still here.
Playing better than all of you.
— End of Show · A Maverick Diary —


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