That Shiny Object

Friday, the 3rd of April 2026. Yesterday, yesterday I was talking about, you know, joy, the accessibility to joy, right? And how I often believed or I spent a very long time believing that joy was only accessible once I obtained success, confidence in all of these things. 

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And as somebody who is effectively guilty of chasing the carrots on the stick or effectively chasing after the shiny things, especially as a, you know, as an avid consumer of many material things. 

Um, I have been guilty of trying to effectively, uh, you know, you know, base in my happiness uh, on effectively what I wanted and what I wanted to get. 

And the reason why I'm effectively recording this reflection and the point that I'm trying to make is that often at times this is something that I do and I'm guilty of doing this. I effectively look at the shiny aspect. I look at all the great qualities of something that I want and I don't really pay attention to the price that I need to pay. 

You know, for the thing that I want. And when I say price, I'm not just referring to the monetary value of a certain thing, but effectively, uh, to sacrifice it that I need to make, and all the horrible, nasty things that come with a very, very shiny object that I want. I can give a perfect example. 

One example is having a vehicle or driving a car. You know, whenever whenever I look at, you know, at a car or an advertisement or a see, you know, the cars driving around. 

I mean, the car driving itself around, you know, the car, the car being around is in, you know, okay. The car effectively being, you know, be seeing, seeing that car everywhere in itself is an advertisement, right? 

I always look at how shiny it is, how clean it is, how lovely it is, how beautiful, you know, it would be of an experience it would be for me to be sitting in that car. Do I think about the price that I'm going to pay in fuel? Do I think about the price that I'm going to pay every time it breaks down? 

Do I think about how much money I have to pay on road tax insurance? Do I think about all of these horrible things and try to minimise them in a sense? Try to think about how I can reduce the stress and the pain that I need to go through to own that freaking car so that I can have more access to the joy. 

No, I do not. and many of us do not. And that's the problem. The same thing applies to rap. 

What is the price that I need to pay for being successful, for being famous, for being wealthy? What sort of problems and headaches does that does that come with? It's something that I need to do, something that I need to remind myself of on a daily basis. 

And uh, something that we all need to do, especially for run our journey to becoming the greatest versions of ourselves. you know, in the context of becoming a rapper, that is.