Clarity is when something fits but in a fashion that is inevitable. This is it ... this was always it ... and I am not going back. In the realm of what I was just dealing with ... I've arrived. And in its deeper, twin realm, I'm on my way.

Clarity is the one thing I want every day.

There are two islands distant from one another, but bridged in a loopy, currently-unseen way. When that bridge is registered by the heart, through and through, it collapses ... and the islands crystallize into a world of structural fit.

The clarity found local to those two islands is henceforth permanent. Now ... why stop at two.

Birds and bulls

I must confess something to you. There was once a time I bought into standards not of my own. I've opened a short-term rental, sold a course or two, operated a mini dev shop, day-traded ... among other things ... to fund my travels across the world. Some succeeded and some failed, but I never felt true Ownership over the things I did to pay the bills.

It is crucial to note: the standards that lead us astray are not that of individual humans. They are of the culture, a mesh contrived by the mesh of people that falls back on them. It's starkly circular.

Every human hears this Noise.

I'm not unscathed myself, but through some stroke of luck, something in me has eventually eliminated all that was fundamentally misaligned with my nature. I'd won a crypto hackathon in Dubai with a team, and our project was set to receive funding and be brought to life in New York. That same day in 2017, however, I chose to leave the team ... because something about it just didn't sit right with me. But that's a story for another time.

I see people going to Nepal for soul seeking. I see people starting companies and getting funding, while others are performing their way up the Great Wall of Corporation. I see solo birds travelling the world off of their lifestyle businesses.

Some may be following the path of their unique and individual destiny.

Others ... well ... the culture has them by the horns.

Summer after summer

In July of 2024, I was sitting by the stream of Cheonggyecheon (청계천) in Seoul, watching the water move ... and shortly after, two words surfaced in my head: "perilla cove". Forgive me, but I rushed to buy the domain. I didn't sit down and plan what PerillaCove would be about, but something about the idea felt ideal.

The strong flash of clarity that spawned in me that day in Korea ... it wasn't the first time I felt such a thing. Exactly two years prior, near a beach of Prince Edward County, I felt an undeniable summertime force to learn the Korean language and later travel to the home of bone broth and Kpop. So I did.

I can sit down and list all of these mysterious forces of Clarity that have serendipitously surfaced in me but we'd be here all day. Even I don't remember them all. All I can say is ... the moment is pure and untouchable, unlike anything else, and I feel I must at least pay attention.

Through a journey of integrated gastronomy that took me to the tropical savannah of Chiang Mai and other gems along the way, PerillaCove has undergone many evolutions.

But this form of PerillaCove is the Final one. It is engineered to integrate all past, present, and future domains.

Motivation leaves at the drop of a hat.

Inspiration seats itself into the heart for good.

These islands are the result of a thousand refinements. Refining these islands is refining my clarity. I come back, weeks later, to what I wrote and something new often sparks within me.

A world seen anew.

Ultimately, however, even PerillaCove won't make it past the Event Horizon that lies at the cusp of a fully-lived life. Nothing will, except the essence from which even Clarity arises. That is all that one can really tap into.

Many of us remain at the whims of the tides, stacking wins here, coping with losses there. I was led astray by the false search of my "niche". What is my startup and what is my product? But I've since learned that these are questions for someone else, not for me. I see through this veil now. There are still other veils ... out there ... for me to uncover, and I will get to them in time.