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The most generous thing you can do for people you care about is stop sacrificing yourself to stay near them. There's pervasive guilt around leaving - like choosing better life for yourself means abandoning everyone else. But martyrdom doesn't actually help anyone. Staying in environment that's grinding you down doesn't make you more useful to community. It makes you exhausted, resentful, and operating from survival mode instead of thriving mode. You cannot pour from empty cup is cliché because it's true. Burned out stressed person trying to help other burned out stressed people creates more burnout and stress. Not progress. The version of you that exists when you're safe, when healthcare isn't constant worry, when you're not chronically exhausted from unsustainable pace, when you have mental space to think beyond immediate survival - that version is exponentially more capable of contributing meaningfully to world. Your value to humanity isn't measured by how much you're willing to suffer for proximity to problems. It's measured by what you can create, offer, and sustain when you're operating from place of actual wellbeing. Happy people raise happy kids. Rested people have bandwidth for creativity and problem-solving. Financially stable people can take risks and support others. Mentally healthy people can hold space for complexity instead of reactive defensiveness. All of those things require you to be somewhere that allows you to be those things. If your environment is designed to extract everything from you, you don't have anything left to give beyond survival. Moving somewhere that lets you thrive isn't opting out of caring about the world. It's opting into being capable of meaningful contribution instead of performative suffering. The people who change things aren't usually the ones being crushed by the system. They're the ones who got enough distance and breathing room to see the system clearly and imagine alternatives. You can't see forest for trees when you're trapped in trees. Perspective requires distance. Clarity requires rest. Innovation requires mental space. All things American life is specifically designed to deny you. Your best ideas, your most effective advocacy, your genuine capacity to help others - all of that exists in version of you that's not constantly stressed about survival. That version doesn't exist in America for most people. Not because they're weak. Because system is designed to keep you depleted. Link in bio for becoming version of yourself that's actually useful to world. What could you create if you weren't exhausted? 🆘🇺🇸

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Here's something I wish I knew sooner about moving abroad. Moving abroad is the best thing you can do for humanity because you in America are broken. You are a shell of a person. You are operating in survival mode. You are unable to be at your peak because American oppresses what you are. It does not allow you to thrive in the way that moving abroad does. And I fully believe that thriving happy people create a better world. So by moving, by leaving that environment and going to an environment where you can thrive, you are doing the best thing you possibly can for your fellow Americans because you can see more clearly when you're outside of the borders. You can understand the problems more deeply and you can be part of the solution more effectively because you are a whole person out of the borders. You can actually think better after living abroad for five years now. I am literally a healthier, happier, more productive human because I left. And the best thing I can do for other Americans is to help them do the same so that you can become a better version of yourself which exists when you leave. So instead of staying and thinking that you can fix America from within, understand that you are operating at the lowest performance you could possibly be operating under because that's what is existing in the United States, a worse version of you. But if you were to leave, you could be innovative in how you could help and that can look a lot of different ways. Your vote still counts when you leave. If the same vote, whether you're in the borders or outside of the borders and you will be a better person, which I think lifts up everyone around you, either digitally around you or physically around you, being a happier version of yourself really does help the world in a way that fighting and protesting and all that vitriol cannot help. You can be a better version of yourself and that starts with saving yourself and getting out of the United States.

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