Reflections | Alex Bon | Psychologist
Telegrams from Reality

Telegrams from Reality

A collection of brief insights, distilled from noise. Some emerged from dialogues with AI, others were decoded from life experience. Thoughts that disrupt autopilot, break patterns, and help see through to the essence of things. Entries: 50.

Telegrams from Reality

When you see the structure of interests, you understand: nothing in this world is personal. No one wishes you harm. Everyone is simply pursuing their goals, tracing their vectors through space. And if you see this, you're no longer a bowling pin getting knocked down. You're a player who sees the whole board.

When you see the structure of interests, you understand: nothing in this world is personal. No one wishes you harm. Everyone is simply pursuing their goals, tracing their vectors through space. And if you see this, you're no longer a bowling pin getting knocked down. You're a player who sees the whole board.

Telegrams from Reality

A person who has eaten only sweets their whole life doesn't know that sweet is sweet. They have nothing to compare it to.

A person who has eaten only sweets their whole life doesn't know that sweet is sweet. They have nothing to compare it to.

Telegrams from Reality

Perfectionism is not a path to happiness, but a road to chronic self-dissatisfaction.

Perfectionism is not a path to happiness, but a road to chronic self-dissatisfaction.

Telegrams from Reality

Sometimes we fear the "worst-case scenario" so much that we forget it only exists in our heads.

Sometimes we fear the "worst-case scenario" so much that we forget it only exists in our heads.

Telegrams from Reality

Half of your stress isn't about the problem itself. It's about how afraid you are of not solving it or looking weak.

Half of your stress isn't about the problem itself. It's about how afraid you are of not solving it or looking weak.

Telegrams from Reality

What you call weakness might be the place of your strength. You're just looking in the wrong direction.

What you call weakness might be the place of your strength. You're just looking in the wrong direction.

Telegrams from Reality

Evolution doesn't care about your happiness, it needs your survival.

Evolution doesn't care about your happiness, it needs your survival.

Telegrams from Reality

Just when you think you've figured it all out, reality changes the rules.

Just when you think you've figured it all out, reality changes the rules.

Telegrams from Reality

Stop being the weatherman of your own life. Just live in the weather.

Stop being the weatherman of your own life. Just live in the weather.

Telegrams from Reality

A person beaten with a stick their whole life instinctively looks for a razor blade in every gingerbread

A person beaten with a stick their whole life instinctively looks for a razor blade in every gingerbread.

Telegrams from Reality

Hell is not a place where demons roast sinners. Hell is a place where no one believes that Heaven could exist somewhere.

Hell is not a place where demons roast sinners. Hell is a place where no one believes that Heaven could exist somewhere.

"I am an explorer describing what I see. Each text here is a mirror reflecting one facet of human experience; one ray of light falling at a particular angle. This is not the ultimate truth nor a universal diagnosis. There are no final answers here. Only an invitation to reflect."

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