Transmission 010: See Clearly

- - - - - GREETINGS, EARTHLING - - - - -

Some Earthlings live for the lens.
But what are you missing when you only look at the surface?

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Optics are powerful on your planet.
Not just the kind made of glass, but the kind that shape how you’re seen.
You’ve built entire systems around perception.
Curated selves. Polished images. Lives performed for invisible audiences.

But optics have no weight.
No roots. No substance.

They will not hold you when things fall apart.

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- - - - - DAILY CALIBRATION - - - - -

Pause before your next decision.
Are you doing it for the look of it? Or for the truth of it?

Choose the version that feels real.
Even if no one claps.

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- - - - - MISSION NOTES - - - - -

On my last orbit, I passed a wedding being livestreamed by drone, a birthday cake untouched for the sake of photos, and a hiker who climbed a mountain to film a reel, then left before watching the sunrise.

I don’t fully understand.
But I’m learning that sometimes, Earthlings forget to be in the moment because they are too busy trying to prove the moment.

- - - - - EMOTIONAL CHECKPOINT - - - - -

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Float well, Earthling.
NeilA

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