When people get sick, their first instinct is medication.

As if taking a pill should naturally make everything better.  But I’ve come to realize something quietly unsettling:  medicine treats yesterday’s illness.

That “yesterday” isn’t a date.  It’s the accumulation of habits, emotions, routines, and choices that existed up until now.

Medication can suppress symptoms.  It cannot replace the decisions you keep repeating today.

If today’s habits don’t change,  tomorrow’s outcome won’t either. No matter how comforting the treatment feels.

What makes traditional medicine uncomfortable is also what makes it honest.  It doesn’t rush to fix results. It forces you to examine the process that produced them.

We often misunderstand time.  We try to solve long-term consequences with short-term actions, and demand immediate change from capacities we haven’t yet grown into.

Your current ability can only solve problems that match it.  Everything else belongs to a future version of you.

Knowing the limits of who you are now is not weakness it’s precision.



—— XC Scribbles · 玖拾玖 XCIX 🌿