What machine have you been welcomed into…

and what was the cost of admission?

Listen to the voice in your head for a second. Not the loud one — the background one, the one that’s been running so long you’ve stopped hearing it as a voice at all.

I should be doing more. I should have more discipline. I should optimize. I should fix my mindset. I should be further along.

You didn’t write that. You were never asked whether you wanted t…