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📓 Saturday, January 31, 2026 — 3:53 p.m.
I’m sitting here taking a break from the heat and my plastic route. I’ve been chilling for about an hour in Koreatown after a 4-piece leg-and-thigh chicken meal with beans and a side salad.
I’ve been relaxing by playing NBA 2K26 in practice mode—just a gym workout, working on fundamentals.
Why?
Because it relaxes me. It’s a virtual gym in a video game.
And while I’m sitting here, a dude passes by on the sidewalk to my left pushing a shopping cart… with a mic in his hand… singing. Yes—an actual mic.
Los Angeles can be a trip.
My sister’s catalytic converter got stolen about a week ago. She found out when she hopped into her car with her pitbull, Scooby, and the engine roared—literally roared—because the catalytic converter was gone.
I guess our local neighborhood thief decided to take a break from stealing batteries and start stealing catalytic converters.
So right now she’s looking for a car, but in the meantime she’s borrowing mine.
And honestly, I’m happy she started going to a psychologist and that she’s trying to get herself a newer car. The hunt can take a while, but at least she’s moving.
Why am I saying all of this?
Because I think I learned something.
Fucking up for as long as I have, I got to the point where I believed—that’s the key word—I believed I could only make mistakes.
But yesterday it hit me: “fucking up” is the label that paralyzes you.
So you have to reframe it.
Fucking up isn’t proof you’re doomed. It’s acquiring a set of skills that increases the probability of success—if you keep going.
And I think if my sister can endure and reframe mistakes like that, she’ll succeed.
That’s a long way through my thought process, but that’s how my mind works—especially when I’m driving, or chilling in practice mode in NBA 2K26, eating Pollo Loco… while a guy walks by with a shopping cart and a microphone, singing like he’s on stage.
Question: What’s one “mistake” you’re carrying as a label—and how would your life change if you treated it like training instead?
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