My Money Isn’t for Flexing — It’s for Escape Routes A Lawless Account of How Not to Get Trapped Let me be clear about something before we start. If you think money is for showing off, you’ve already missed the point. Money isn’t jewelry. It’s not proof. It’s not validation. Money is the key in your pocket when the door locks behind you. And I don’t talk about my keys. People always assume I don’t care about money because I don’t act impressed by it. I don’t light up when someone starts listing brands. I don’t
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Your Salary Is Cute — But What Else Do You Bring to the Table? Let’s get one thing out of the way upfront: Your salary is cute. And before someone gets offended, relax , cute isn’t an insult. Cute means it’s doing its little job. It’s trying. It’s wearing a bow and showing up on payday like, “Look! I helped!” Meanwhile, Lawless is behind me absolutely losing her mind, yelling: “HELPED WHAT? THE GAS BILL?” Exactly. A salary is not the villain. It’s just not the whole story. Some people treat their salary like it’s a personality trait. Like
RECLAIMING THE PARTS OF ME I THREW AWAY TO SURVIVE I used to cut pieces of myself off just to keep the peace. I dimmed the fire I held within me. I softened the edges, though I still looked rough, even angry. I made myself smaller, sweeter kind of, quieter, all because the world told me survival depended on obedience. And you know what? It worked. For a while. Until it didn’t. Until the silence felt like suffocation. Until the “safer” version of me was nothing but a ghost walking around in my skin. So here’s the truth: I’m
The Rebuild Isn’t Pretty — It’s Messy, Loud, and Absolutely Worth It Told by Rage • Raw • Mechanical • Fully Unapologetic Rebuilding your life is a lot like tearing down an engine that’s been running too hot for too long. Everybody loves the idea of a rebuild , the clean workbench, the shiny new tools, the inspirational playlist in the background. Cute. But that’s not how it actually goes. A real rebuild? It’s messy. It’s loud. It smells like burnt clutch, ego, and WD-40. And Rage is here to tell you exactly how it feels when you stop
Meet the Bad Breed — The Voices of My Rebuild” How each character is a reflection of me, and how I reflect back through them! 🫣 Realm Lore: Where My Inner World Learns to Speak Out Loud Most people walk around thinking their thoughts are private , that what lives inside their heads is something they alone carry. That’s not how it works for me. My inner world has always had a voice, actually, several voices. They show up when I’m alone in the garage. When I’m lifting in silence. When I’m ripping down the highway with
Low-Heat Days Still Count — Notes From the Forge Mindset: The Forge Series There’s this lie we tell ourselves, that the only days that matter are the ones where we’re on fire. The days where the hammer hits clean, the sparks fly bright, the vision is sharp, and everything feels like it’s building toward something bigger. But here’s the truth nobody likes to admit: Most of the real work happens on the low-heat days. The slow days. The tired days. The “I don’t have it in me” days. That’s Forge work too. And lately? I’ve been living in the low-heat