Personal Reflection:
We’re conditioned to see the world through hand-me-down lenses. Parents, teachers, bosses, algorithms — they hand us their truths, and we swallow them without question. It’s easier that way. But easy vision is borrowed vision, and borrowed vision will always keep you half-blind.
Einstein’s words hit harder the longer you sit with them: most people will never risk seeing with their own eyes or feeling with their own hearts. Why? Because it’s safer to blend in, safer to parrot back what the crowd already believes. Safer, but hollow.
To see with your own eyes means you’re going to notice the cracks, the lies, the hypocrisy nobody else wants to name. To feel with your own heart means you’re going to bleed — joy, grief, rage, wonder — all of it, raw and unfiltered. And maybe that’s why so few choose it: it’s not clean, it’s not convenient, and it sure as hell won’t win you applause.
But conformity has its own cost: you end up living as a ghost in your own skin. Better to be cut open by your own truth than embalmed in someone else’s comfort.
Reflective Prompt:
When was the last time you trusted your own eyes and heart over the noise around you? What did it reveal about who you are becoming?
Memoirs of Madness 
Good post. Thanks x
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thank you
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This post is written so powerfully — it really hits deep. The way you’ve described seeing with your own eyes and feeling with your own heart is something I relate to so much.
In my final year of the science stream, everyone was advising me to choose Chemistry because of the job prospects. But my heart was drawn to Physics. Despite all the noise and opinions, I trusted myself and chose Physics. Looking back, I’m genuinely grateful and proud that I followed my own truth instead of the safer path.
Your words reminded me exactly why that decision still matters to me today.
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thank you. There has many roads I should taken, but listening to others.
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thank you
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This really speaks to me. I’ve learned the hard way that living by someone else’s vision will leave you empty. The crowd makes it easy to stay quiet, to play along, but every time I’ve trusted my own eyes and heart, I’ve discovered something deeper — about the world and about myself.It’s not clean or comfortable. Sometimes it hurts. But I’d rather deal with the pain of truth than live as a ghost in my own life.
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thank you. You are so right
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