It may seem like a far off future to me right now, but it’s already happened. The future has decided that I will come to meet this version of myself that used to reside only within my mind. It decided because I decided to act like that future me. Act like him every single day, until I became him. I’m him now. I can see how he got to where he got to. It’s obvious that he would make it there, with the way he acts and takes on his day, it es inevitable that he would make it. What a liberating mindset to attain. To have this understanding that all I have to do is do the work I tell myself to do. I become like a soldier to myself. Someone that does the hard work in order to win the war against myself. Every time I refuse my direct orders, I fall lower. I noticed that a while ago, so I became more cautious about the promises I would make myself. I wanted to build a belief in myself first before my promises began to become outlandish again. Now, I’m free to be as delusional as I want to be, because I know I can do what I tell myself to do.
At some point, the gap between who I was and who I wanted to be started to shrink—not because life got easier, but because I stopped waiting. I started showing up like the version of me that already made it. That man didn’t need motivation. He didn’t negotiate with himself. He just executed. So I took that blueprint and ran with it. Repetition built familiarity, and familiarity built reality. The man I imagined became the man I mirrored, until one day the mirror disappeared.
That’s when I realized how much of life is just following through. It’s not about feeling like doing it—it’s about being someone who does it anyway. That’s how trust in myself was rebuilt. Not through talk, but through action. Small victories stacked quietly into an unshakable confidence. And now I don’t need certainty from anyone else. I’ve watched myself carry out difficult things too many times to question if I can do it again.
So I gave myself permission to dream like a madman. Because there’s no fear in aiming high when you’ve proven you’ll walk toward it every day. That’s not delusion—it’s discipline layered over time. I am the soldier and the commander. The visionary and the laborer. I’m building the impossible, not through hope, but through unwavering obedience to the future I already chose.
