The sentence in the unidentified accent

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August 29, 2026: 🗓

I read something yesterday that set off a domino effect that went an interesting direction. I’ll label the dominos with the little number-block emojis.

1️⃣ “Surviving something that was supposed to break you did not happen because you are unusually tough. It happened because ordinary human systems, given even minimally sufficient conditions, tend toward functioning and growth. You were not exceptional in the way that exceptionalism implies. You were human in the way that humanness, at its most fundamental, actually operates.”
– excerpt of a post from Beyond with Kelson

2️⃣ I don’t specifically believe anything was or wasn’t supposed to break me. But the part at the end, “the way that humanness, at its most fundamental, actually operates,” reminded me of my senior-year quote for my high-school yearbook picture. It was “the inspired mind is the very essence of creative influence.” I still don’t know what I specifically meant by that, but I spent so many hours sitting at my mom’s computer desk thinking about the structure of that sentence and researching word definitions and synonyms.

3️⃣ The idea of the fundamental-ness of a thing reminded me of a video I saw months…