I was going to put it off, but I should do this blog post while the ideas and influences are still fresh.. having finished a couple influences related.
I just finished Mort in the Terry Pratchett Discworld book series. As always, Terry's works are intricately woven tapestries of thought and plot. There is never just one thought you can gain from reading it, but it helps you to think through things and develop logic skills. Mort is on the surface the story of an apprentice of Death, buy it introduces or explores many other concepts.
One of those concepts is the power of our expectations and beliefs. Death explained that people get what they expected in the afterlife, as it is easier that way. Further, they talk about how the power of belief in gods makes them exist and not exist when not believed.. a concept also in Disney's Coco, as the person that passed worried no one would remember them to male them exist.
Faith has the power to create. When we believe in ourselves or others, we act. When we do not, we die. If we expect more or demand more, we get more. If we accept less by others that want to ignore us or hold us down, we let them dictate our own misery.
Believe.. especially when doing so pisses off others. Reach. Try. Go. Rise. Fuck the critics. They don't deserve to be part of the story when you achieve. Whether you reach the highest goals is irrelevant. You will achieve the most you can reach, and the rest of the story will write itself.
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