Let’s Be Real

Let’s be real.
You’re not okay.
And neither is anyone else.
You feel it—you do.

Under the memes and the microdoses and the 3am TikTok rabbit holes, there’s that ache.
The one that whispers,
This is not it.
And you know it.

You scroll past 'perfect' lives in 15-second loops, and so many of them make you feel worse.
Worse about your face and body.
Worse about your bank account.
Worse about your relationships.
Worse about your job.
Worse about the fact that you don’t have a side hustle, a passion project, or some magic thing to monetize that might finally let you quit the grind and stop living with that quiet fear of falling behind, of never making it, of always almost drowning.

You try to laugh it off—
"lol I’m literally spiraling"

And you are.
You are literally spiraling.

Let’s be real.
The people who sold you this world?
They are still selling it—because it never delivered.
And now they are packaging a lot of new pain with a better filter.
Call it entertainment. Call it productivity. Call it politics. Call it whatever.
It all feels empty. Broken.

But here’s the thing.
You are not broken.
You are buried.
Buried under so much noise you can’t hear the sound of your own soul.

Your feed is fast, your mind is fuzzy, your body is tired.
You scroll like you’re hoping to find a door to something better.
Maybe you are.

I’m not here to sell you crystals.
I’m not here to give you a morning routine or tell you to align your chakras or manifest your dream house into existence.
I’m not here to sell you a lifestyle that looks deep but feels hollow.
Because that is part of the problem.

The spiritual world has gotten really good at selling you what looks like depth.
It wraps up confused truths in pretty words and calls it profound.
It turns ancient wisdom into sanitized entertainment. Presence into performance.
It has been dressed up in robes, drowned in hashtags, and layered with ridiculous somberness.
But you can feel that something’s off, and it makes your eyes roll.

Good. Roll them.
Because spirituality has been marketed into absurdity.

A lot of the people out there teaching spiritual growth do not make it easy to take any of this seriously. Some are so focused on their own image that everything becomes about them, like they are trying to build a fanbase instead of offering something real. Others are... strange. Uncomfortable. They don't seem to know how they come across, and it feels off.

So between the self-appointed gurus and the cringe, you probably wrote the whole thing off a long time ago and slapped the label "woo" on it.

Fair enough.

But here’s the twist: the stuff you call woo?
That's the feeling you get around someone, that makes you instantly think they're creepy. That's your sensitivity. That's your signal.

Being able to feel that is exactly what many of those spiritual teachers are trying to teach you. Not with their awkward words or worship-me vibes, but through something deeper—something they may not even fully understand themselves.

You think ‘energy’ is some hippy-dippy nonsense.
Then you walk into a room and instantly know the vibe is off.
Guess what? That’s energy.

That gut-level knowing—that sense that something feels off, or good, or intense for no obvious reason—that is the language of energy.
You’ve been speaking it your whole life.
You never had a name for it. Now you do.

Energy. Vibration. Whatever works.
If you feel that, you feel what's real.

Being real doesn’t mean filming your breakdown or branding your trauma.
It means looking in the mirror and telling yourself the truth.

Feeling the truth.
Even when it sucks.

You want depth.
You want connection.
You’d like to stop pretending.
You’d like to actually feel something other than the structured outrage of your feed.
That’s not cringe. That’s human.

This system does not care about you.
Likes are not love.
Hustle is not purpose.
And one day you might actually pause—your scrolling, your working, your desperate or numb surviving—take a breath, and realize you don't recognize the person living your life at all.

And when you do, that's when you start to realize there might be a better way.

I'm not selling you anything.
I'm handing you a key.
You can toss it or turn it.
But the door’s real.
And so are you.

Wake up.
What you are doing is not working.
For you or for anyone.

And it doesn't have to be this way.

You were born with magic in your bones.
Real magic.
The kind that makes you feel something when you walk into a room.
The kind that lets you tell when someone is lying before they even open their mouth.
The kind that makes you cry when you see beauty, and laugh for no reason at all.

That is real.
More real than your feed.
More real than your follower count.
More real than the voice in your head telling you to keep it together.

Keeping it together is killing you.

Let it get real.
Let it get raw.
Let it show you something true.
That's when can you start building something that’s worth living for.

Start by feeling.
Actually feeling.

Not thinking about your feelings.
Not posting about your feelings.
Not crying or laughing about them.
Not memeing them.
Feeling them.

And while you're feeling those feelings, if you laugh or cry, let it be honest.
Let it come from somewhere real.
Because your feelings are a signal.
And every signal points to something worth listening to.

So follow the signal.

See where it leads. Start to feel better.

I'm not here as some guru, speaking from a place of perfection.
I've been where you are.
I spent my life wearing a mask and distracting myself.
And I got tired of pretending.

This is your permission slip to stop pretending, too.

Let’s be real.

The world needs you.
Not the filtered you. Not the hustling you.
Not the spiritually sanitized version of you.
The you that is raw and loud and quiet and angry and grieving and loving and tender and true.

Be that. Be all of it.
Be real.
And watch how the world responds when it finally meets the real you.
Watch how it's not scary like you thought.
Watch how things get so much easier.
Watch how all of the things you were worried about start to fall away.
Not because you forgot about them or ignored them or demolished them.
But because you know how to move without them.
Because you feel what's true.
Because you feel what it's like to be real.

Regardless of who you are or what you believe, we all can see the truth: the world is in crisis.
Fascism is rising. War is constant. The economy is cracking. Climate collapse looms.
You know it. You feel it. You wish it were different.

But we don't change the world by yelling at it.
We also don't fix anything by pretending we’re fine.

We can't have a working system when all of the people in it are broken.
We can only change the world by becoming real with ourselves first.

So do you wish to see your world change?
The world change?
Really change?
Start by being real.
Then teach others how to be real, too.
We can all be real with each other.

Really.