LAWS ≠ RULES
There are laws, and there are rules.
Laws don’t care about approval.
They don’t flex for culture or timing.
They just are
Like gravity. Like consequence.
Like the rhythm of your nervous system
when you’re out of alignment
and trying to pretend you’re not.
Rules, though?
Those are someone’s opinion
that got repeated enough to look official.
And for a long time, I confused the two.
I was carrying other people’s rules
like they were sacred scripture.
I used to think there was a
right way to do this.
The work.
The marriage.
The friendship.
The artistry.
The “being a man” part of it all.
Like I was supposed to be more stoic, more consistent, more linear.
Like loving my craft but also
needing stillness was weak.
Like creating something
just because it felt good
made me a scattered amateur,
not a professional.
Like needing help was an indicator
I hadn’t done the internal work.
And I didn’t realize it,
but I was living under rules that weren’t mine.
Rules from the marketing world.
Rules from hypermasculine examples
I admired …but didn’t resonate with.
Rules from watching other marriages,
other creators, other business owners
and trying to patchwork together my path from a blueprint that was
never designed for me.
Then I remembered how I sold my motorcycle.
That bike was freedom.
It was my childhood.
It was connection with my dad.
It was me.
But when I was building this life
I knew I had to let it go.
Not because I didn’t love it.
But because the season changed.
The law of momentum
was more important
than the rule of identity.
I didn’t stop being a rider.
I just stopped pretending I needed the bike to be one.
I still feel that wind.
That thrill.
That power.
It was never a need, …an expression.
A Harley, not hydration.
That’s when it clicked.
I was NO LONGER confusing
rules of identity with laws of alignment.
⸻
Laws are few,
but they are sacred.
What you invest in will grow.
What you avoid will rule you.
Your body never lies.
Presence is power.
You don’t need more time,
…you need less resistance.
Everything else? Style points.

