I think what you do is dangerous

It scares me because it’s reckless

It drips from a cultural spew

The fount of find your bliss

You convince people to follow their heart

But you never tell them just how fickle the heart can be

You assume they have even the faintest notion of what they want

You don’t question the wisdom, reality or imperative of their dream

You probably think it’s not your place

Which is precisely the problem

See only stupid arrogant coaches teach addicts how to gamble

Simply because the addict says he wants to gamble

A real coach cares about the deepest desires of the human heart first

I met a young man who wanted to be a teacher

He can barely string a sentence together

Can barely live on his own

But you would tell him to chase his dream

And would charge to coach him

And if he could, he would absolutely pay

Because “you can do it” and “you’re the best” are great things to hear

But while you’re busy living into your dream of being coach of the year

Who helps the young man

Who really helps him

Who says, “Hey, very few of us know exactly what we want”

“It changes from one season to the next”

“But understand that we are living for something bigger”

“There is a bigger kingdom, a kingdom bigger than you and me”

“You is a very fluid concept”

And “you are not the expert of you”

Why teach a false self-focused happiness-above-all-else narrative

You. You are the lasso that is pulling people away from a grand kingdom to the self-indulgent kingdom of “success”

Please stop

People need help and hope

Not what you do

You’re not helping

And you’re own heart feels it

Cause it all still feels really empty

Doesn’t it

I’m so sorry shallow teachers urged you to follow your dream

It’s made you very plastic

Plastic and phony

Plastic and phony and fake

And I’m sad for you

You are very different now

I miss you with substance

Listen, there’s a reason this isn’t working

You are making secondary things primary

So your enjoyment of secondary things is frustrated

See, you, placing all your energy into being the star who helps others become the star

Is terrible misguided

We were never meant to be the star