It makes sense now.

Monday, Jun 9, 2025

My first MMM entry was dated November 12, 2020:

“Today is another awesome opportunity. It is an opportunity to practice – to practice presence, relaxed, alert, and aware. Today is an opportunity to discover peace within yourself. You can bring a peaceful presence wherever you go, today. Today is another opportunity to be at ease. Today, the world waits for you to fully recognize its awesome power and radiant beauty. Today your spirit waits for you to know the wholeness of who you really are. Now is the time to see that your life was perfectly designed, just for your benefit and joy. Be grateful, and share the good news with others!”

At that time, I was writing for an audience. It’s very easy to think you’re doing for others. Humans are altruistic, and while that sounds noble, we benefit from what we give. Altruism is not ultimately about others. The need for a blog like this was mine. I couldn’t say if “the world” needed it. But I know I did.

I needed to learn. I needed to learn how to discipline myself to write daily. I needed to learn how to translate abstractions. I had to learn how to be excited about my ideas. I needed to learn how to allow my writing to be “out there” and to allow it to be critiqued and commented upon.

Thank you, whoever you are for writing MMM. Thank you, whoever you are for learning from MMM. Thank you, whoever you are for allowing us all to be better humans. Thank you, whoever you are, for making us creatures who evolve, which means we’re designed with ignorance to overcome, demons to face, and sicknesses to cure. So thank you, whoever you are, for the suffering. That won’t make sense to everyone, but it makes sense to me now.