Every self-help book, every motivational guru, every shiny Instagram meme is spewing the same old garbage: Take back your power!
Well, fuck that.
How’s trying to control everything working out for you? Trying to manage your thoughts, shape your emotions, direct your actions, and force your life to fit some ideal picture you’ve painted in your mind? Where’s that gotten you? I’ll tell you where: nowhere. You’re still stuck, still struggling, still carrying the weight of the goddamn universe on your back.
So here’s a wild thought: Take back your powerlessness. Yes, you heard me right. Stop this illusion that you’re the captain of the ship, the master of your destiny, the puppet master pulling the strings. You’re not in control of anything. Everything you think, everything you feel, everything you do—it’s all just happening. Stardust dancing, atoms colliding, the universe moving through you like a fucking cosmic symphony, and here you are, shaking your fist at the heavens, demanding to be the conductor.
But here’s the truth: there is no conductor. The music plays itself. And you are an instrument through which this cosmic madness flows. And that’s the beauty of it. That’s the freedom. You’re not holding the baton. You never were.
You’re the infinite goddamn universe expressing itself in this moment.
So stop clenching your fists around the illusion of control and just… let go. Surrender to the flow of this vast, unpredictable, uncontrollable life. Feel the release that comes when you finally accept that whatever happens is exactly what’s meant to happen, that whatever you feel is exactly what you’re supposed to feel, that whatever you think is just a fleeting echo of the universe’s song.
Fuck control. Embrace your powerlessness. Because when you do, you realize you’re not a helpless victim of life’s chaos—you are the chaos, you are the storm. You’re the infinite goddamn universe expressing itself in this moment, and that, my friends, is more powerful than any illusion of control you’ve ever grasped at.
So take back your powerlessness. Own the fact that you’re just along for the ride, strapped into this cosmic rollercoaster with no brakes and no steering wheel. And in that surrender, find your true power—the power to be exactly what you are, to feel exactly what you feel, and to let the universe play you like the magnificent, chaotic, divine instrument you are.
Now, go out there and be powerless as fuck.