u/AggravatingRefuse547

First I’ll explain what caused it. Weak feet. Weak feet that were caused by narrow shoes that did not allow the toes to splay and grip the floor, toes that are powered by muscles deep within the foot.

As a result, all of the weight goes, unnaturally, to the fascia which isn’t engineered to support the whole body. The toes, heel, midfoot, and knee work together, or are supposed to work together each step.

I got barefoot shoes. Minimalist shoes, more accurately. I’d list the brand but I don’t want this to come off as promotional so I’ll withhold that.

I walk, and very importantly, outside but on soft terrain, a few times per week. I also just wear the minimalist shoes everywhere I can. Woods, grass, hilly areas. Stores. Hills are great because they stretch the Achilles and foot muscles that have atrophied due to tight shoes.

I could not walk barefoot at home. The thought of it pained me, and the action of it incapacitated me. I was given inserts that provided relief but made the underlying cause worse, which is weak feet.

I can now literally run around in my house or on concrete. My arches have raised. My whole foot is thicker. They don’t get cold, or too hot and sweaty. My knees don’t hurt ever. No back pain. Modern shoes disrupt your entire gait.

Minimalist shoes is what cured my PF.

We all know we want to rid the world of evil things like greed, malice, exploitation. But we don’t talk enough about what we’d like to replace it with.

My house is getting painted and we hired a team of 8 or so guys, most who do not speak the same language as me. They’ve been very kind, I’ve brought them lunch over the course of the week and it’s been a good experience.

Today is the last day of their painting, and they’re all swimming in the pool at the house, drinking and laughing. Nice sunny day. Playing soccer in the yard. Grown men. I don’t know what they’re talking and laughing about cause I don’t speak the same language but the smiles on their faces are so pure and genuine that I felt compelled to write about it. I see moments like this everyday and they get buried. What’s stopping us from sharing the good times?

I think pure joy naturally deters, or creates an environment that makes greed and evil unsustainable, the same way sunlight and vinegar create an unsustainable environment for fungi to grow.

Feel free to share something you’ve seen recently or in your life that has stuck in your memory, of people having a good time, enjoying the world and each other in a pure way.

I think the reason people that like ITYSL also aren’t so fond of a certain administration is because in order to appreciate ITYSL, you must be able to decipher layers. If you can decipher layers, you can see right through the games and corruption of a certain administration.

There are monsters on this earth.

God (or the creator if that’s more your style) gave us a spirit of creativity, innovation, and discipline. Weapons of war (and of medicine and transportation and every other field) advancing to this degree was an inevitability. We have made astronomical progress in everything, except the way we treat eachother. Seems like we’ve regressed?

Wars will be fought with unmanned systems almost exclusively. They will be nearly indestructible. And the weapons required to take out these bots will be of enormous power, to make erasing a human as easy as an elephant taking out a dust mite.

How might we live alongside this technology, a specie that mops the floors with humans in every relevant metric?

It might wipe us out or we might become enslaved, to name two possible but not guaranteed scenarios. Think about this, no animal that is stronger smarter and more capable exists below the food chain of animals that are lower in the metrics I listed. Consider humans, foxes, chickens, insects, plants. From top to bottom, the predator becomes the prey to the next. Lazy analogy but hopefully you get my point.

We are no longer at the top. It beats us in every metric required to be above someone on the food chain. That leaves three options - we are removed, or we are made enslaved to AI, the same way we have essential enslaved cows, chickens, and crops. or we somehow acquire a utopic harmony, which is certainly possible and can start as soon as right now if we get our heads out of our rear and decide to work instead of trying to meditate reality away.

For the record, I don’t believe that we will be enslaved by AI or should be, I’m simply considering the possibility. This is why CEO’s of every major AI company have underground fortified bunkers on isolated islands.

Maybe being enslaved by AI is the cosmic “price” of humans enslaving others on earth, and we should welcome it with open arms?

The wars. The fires. Vegetables we have known how to grow for thousands of years that are making us sick in 2026 in chain restaurants. The algorithms engineered to anger and scare you. The guy at the gym that bumps into you on purpose. The woman who gossips about your shoes while her lips are pumped full of plastic. The bribes and corruption. The subtle vanishing of quality art and books. The contrarian stances people so often take, just to feel something. Anything.

What’s it all boil down to?

Multiple times per day, we choose love or ego. Love or greed. Love or pride. Love or lust. Love or anger. Love or vengeance.

I do not want to live on this earth with these short sighted, greedy people.

Please choose love everyone. This can change. I’m not sure if our second chance will be on earth, but I do believe our awareness continues. We have literally created hell on earth. Maybe it’s not in your town, but it will be, sooner than you think, if the evil forces that are becoming dominant in this world continues to grow.

Please think deeply about the state of the world and what you can do to change it. Focus on what you are good at, what comes natural to you. And pray. Not in a religious sense, but voicing your intentions to the universe. It works for millions of people including myself. All love.

Edit: you might be inclined (rightfully so) to tell me to change myself before I ask others to change and to that I say I am trying my best to be the change I wish to see in the world. If my message of encouraging people to choose love before it’s too late strikes a nerve with you, perhaps this message is for you.

If we can deduce that a human being is one the most energetically and complexity rich machines (yes people are people, but they also function like a machine in that they consume calories through food, produce heat, motion, and feeling) functionality wise, along with with the unique ability to produce love, I’ve come to realize that harmonizing with an acoustic guitar, a male and female voice with octaves is an absolutely wonderous way to connect.

If you were to try to get something to vibrate at a specific frequency through space and time in a scientific, physical context, you’d lose your mind. But if you take a song, and add another person, like magic, you can both produce beautiful frequencies that ring off of each other, the wood of the acoustic guitar, and produce feelings in the air that can only be found in that room. Recording it can capture the essence of this beauty.

Check out suspicious minds by Elvis. His voice and the womans voice blend wonderfully, I bet it was a great time recording that. Harmonies in the 50’s were better in my opinion because music wasn’t as much of hobby but a lifestyle, due to the fact there wasn’t as many distractions. The ability to harmonize was almost as natural as conversing if I had to guess. People didn’t have portable recording devices so we can’t listen unfortunately.

If you think having a conversation is satisfying, you’ll love harmonizing with other people. You can learn it yourself with a speaker to start.

Harmonizing thirds and sixths generally take some practice to master, but everyone can hear octaves. Just my thoughts as a musician.

If you don’t have anyone to play music with, there is nothing quite as freeing as singing your thoughts over a chord progression based on how you’re feeling. Each chord has a feeling that can be broken down and explained why it has that feeling. There are intervals that sound like summer. Ones that sounds like winter. It’s an amazing thing.