Mold your world until it fits your form
See through the masks. Mold your world. Stay flexible in uncertainty. This week: on perspective, self-determination, and emotional intelligence.
December 27th, 2025 - Issue #149 - read online
👋 Welcome to Pursuit—your weekly pause for intentional living, self-discovery, and inner clarity. My name is Amir, and every week I share four carefully chosen ideas to help you design a more fulfilling life.
This week’s reflections:
🎭 Become the joker who sees the game
🛠️ Mold your world until it fits your form
🌊 Learn to be comfortable inside uncertainty
💭 Feel first, interpret later
🎭 Become the joker who sees the game
Life is a game that we forget is a game. We take institutions, roles, and even our own seriousness as absolute, when in truth they are masks in play. The “joker” is the one who sees through this: that the world is not headed toward some final purpose but is more like music, valuable simply because it is being played. From this view, even flaws, neuroses, and contradictions are not errors to be eliminated but part of the harmony. Like salt in a stew, the imperfections give the whole its flavor.
To awaken is not to escape the game but to recognize you were always part of it. Existence contains both light and shadow, winning and losing, virtue and rascality. Each person, like pearls on a necklace—large or small—belongs exactly where they are, forming the symmetry of the whole. What matters is not moral fear or rigid purity but choosing how you wish to play, knowing that all of it, even the rough edges, is a manifestation of the same ground of being.
✨ From Alan Watts
🛠️ Mold your world until it fits your form
We each have our own journey. Each one of us holds our own thread. We don’t know what someone else’s deep business is. And I’m not talking about the work and the jobs we do; I’m talking about the reason for their being. We don’t know what that is, and we don’t know what their timeframe is.
If whatever it is that you’re doing doesn’t work for you, change it. And keep changing it until it does work. It’s your right to mold and remold, and keep remolding your world and your life until it fits your form. Don’t fit your form to whatever is being given to you. And don’t give up on yourself because you are all you’ve got. I’m all I’ve got. And what we’ve got is a lot. We have so much potential. Potential... potential and possibility... it’s all about that.
🌊 Learn to be comfortable inside uncertainty
We are living through a season of deep uncertainty. The unknowns pile up and most of us feel some form of anxiety. When that happens, we reach for something that promises relief. Therapy. Astrology. Religion. Longevity protocols with their trackers and metrics. All are attempts to hear that things will be okay, or to control what can be measured.
There is another path. You can learn to be comfortable inside uncertainty. The happiest people I know are not the loudest. They hold opinions lightly. They change their minds. They are receptive and curious.
Curiosity, openness to uncertainty, and fluidity of perspective correlate with optimism and resilience. You do not need forced positivity to face the future. You need the capacity to stay flexible as it unfolds.
When anxiety spikes, engage in something creative. It does not have to be art. Cook a new recipe. Rearrange a room. Sketch an idea. Make a small thing and let your hands lead. Creative work quiets the mind by giving it a present task. Over time these practices build a nervous system that can meet uncertainty without grasping for control.
💭 Feel first, interpret later
Constant analysis can drown out the wisdom of feeling. Emotions often carry guidance that thinking cannot access. Feel first and interpret later. When your mind snaps into either–or, notice that fear is steering. Ego is not only the identity you claim. It is also the parts of yourself you refuse to be.
Anxiety sometimes hides repressed excitement. Ask what wants to move. Exhaustion often tracks with self-criticism because beating yourself up is draining. Endless critique can signal a wish to be seen as valuable rather than a wish to be of value. You cannot stop the voice in your head, yet you can change how you respond. Your response alters its tune.
✨ Joe Hudson
🎵 Music I’m listening to
You’ll find mostly Ethnotronica, Organic House, World, Disco, and Organic Electronic here:
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🌒 Pano: Danceable and electronic obscure songs
🌓 Sisy: Ethnotronica and organic house
🌑 Berghain: Dark, minimal techno and tech house
🌕 Heide: Groovy soul and disco house
🌞 Sonntag: Afterhours shit
🦥 Slow rave: Sleepy techno for tired danced
🌎 World: From Latin jazz to Turkish psych
🌚 Super Slow: For your intimate moments
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