Steve Bryce (he/him)

There are forces in this world that want you to be colder and harder and tougher.

But what we really need is more gentleness, more kindness, more caring, and more tenderness.

That’s how we fight.

Be true to who you are. Do what you’ve got to do. Trust yourself. Be confident.

And also, be ready to grow and be willing to change. This is not all of it. There is better yet to be made and done.

Dear my own mind, no, not everybody is mad at you and not everybody hates you and not everybody thinks you don’t belong. In fact, probably basically nobody feels that way. You’ve got your people. And they are for you.

I think one of my big problems with AI (along with the ethical, environmental, and economic implications) is that it is just dishonest. It lies as content. And it lies in production. It’s deceptive in that people want to use it to seem like they’ve put in the work. But they haven’t.

Can confirm the thing that I’ve been putting off for 4 months did in fact take 15 minutes to take care of

Loving someone means loving all of them. It doesn’t mean not helping them become the best version of themselves (we all have ways we can heal and grow). But it does mean we have space and accept them, and ourselves, as we are.

authenticity>>>>playing it cool

A lot of defense mechanisms will keep us safe, but they don’t necessarily make us healthy

Ohh… so you’re telling me I have to love all of myself before I can be vulnerable, accept love from others, and fully give love to anyone else as well?

The grass is always greener where you water it

How many hours as an amateur crastinator before you can go pro?

Nobody really knows what happens next. People can make some really good guesses, but none of it is written in stone. It is not certain. It is still changeable. You can still have an impact on what this world looks like, right where you are.

If all we ever do is respond, we’ve given up our agency.

We choose where our love goes. And we choose whether to believe it is a waste or not.

But no love given is wasted.

“If they wanted to they would…”

Maybe yes. There are a lot of reasons someone does or doesn’t do something.

More important is: if you want to, then do.

Quick and easy doesn’t make it valuable and meaningful.

chalk up another win for Team America: World Police

A lot of things can snowball and have a pretty big impact on the world and those around them.

But someone has to be the first to get the ball rolling.

The things you let live in your heart are the things that are going to live on in your life

There are very few things that are not figure out able. You just have to be willing to accept that there are things that you don’t have figured out. And then be willing to work on figuring it out. Usually in some kind of community

There are two kinds of people: those who say that things just are the way they are so we may as well make the most of it and those who say that things don’t actually have to be this way just because they are

I think, try to be the second kind of person

Leadership isn’t gendered

Losing yourself in someone else isn’t love.

We become what we saw being human looked like. And we will keep being that until we unlearn it and choose to become who we believe we could be.

What lasts takes time

Don’t sit in the what ifs and what could have been’s. What we’ve got is what is and all the things we can still make it

Things ran before you. And things will continue to run after you.

But you are here now. And you are the only one who can add what it is that you bring to it.

Feelings will come and go. Don’t base all your choices off how you feel at any given moment.

But also, don’t ignore what your feelings are telling you. Pay attention to the spaces and people that bring about more of the things you want to have in your life.

We can’t do this life thing alone. We weren’t meant to. We need each other. We need connection and warmth and closeness and love.

Nobody else has had or will have the exact same experiences as you. We’re all coming at this life from all our own pinballed angles. Be curious with one another.

You can’t love someone if all you’re ever doing is trying to make them make themselves more palatable to you