every day we're fighting a battle: creation vs consumption

it's common for me to read someone's tweets, watch their youtube videos, or listen to a song and feel like my life is being enriched

and it is - but it's incredibly easy to consume far more than we create

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creation is the tool we've been given to become main characters

taking an idea from the magical lands of our imagination and make it tangible. it's the only proof of consciousness we have. both for ourselves, and to others

can we capture that feeling of excitement from a new insight and bottle it into a post we can read later? can we build a tool to improve someone's life?

today, we get to decide

we eliminate any chance of novel contribution to the world by bombarding our minds with the opinion of others, and drowning out our inner voice

when we over consume, whether we realize it or not, we're choosing to turn ourselves into npcs - bots that regurgitate what's around them and have no agency on the world