I can’t find my way. Why? - tiotrom.com/2026/01/i-cant-fin…
For the past two years I’ve been trying to create new content for TROM and I failed. I don’t have to do it, but I want to. Else I feel lost and I will explain why.
I have never been trapped in such a suffocating situation before.
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I can’t find my way. Why?
For the past two years I’ve been trying to create new content for TROM and I failed. I don’t have to do it, but I want to. Else I feel lost and I will explain why.I have never been trapped in such a suffocating situation before.
I remember people telling me how they envy my drive and how I am like a “rock” in a storm, I keep on being the same, create stuff, engage, be active. That was my “activism” activity online. So many projects, websites, books, videos, I was a machine really.
Even I was thinking how good that my only problem is money and not some mental struggle. Because if I have money I know what to do.
Now I still don’t have much money, but money is also not an issue currently. I don’t think much about it because this is my home:
I am typing this article from inside this little thing we call Tortuga (Tortoise). Because it is slow but resilient :). But living in this way allowed me to live with a lot less. 5-600 Euros a month is enough for me to live, travel, eat and pay for internet. Half of what I needed before.When I started my “activism” my immediate environment sucked. Living with my parents, we were all poor, stressed, my family was slaving to a job in Spain. I had no money and no way to take care of myself. Everyone I knew was a total zombie, trapped robot citizens, mushed brains, livestock meat. I HATED it! I was and felt alone.
The outside world was the same mess. I was disgusted by it. Buy, work, be trapped, be an idiot. Destroy, lie, deceive. Compete, don’t give a fuck, be a dick.
I felt trapped but I mentally untrapped myself.I found some hope online. My blog was reaching some people, so I felt like someone is listening. Then came across organizations like TVP/TZM and realized there might be a hope to this bullshit society.
It was a path that I was seeing from my dark place to something. Something…I don’t know what, but something.
And this path gave me hope. This world can be a paradise if we are scientifically minded and understand that the society we live in is a human invention, so to not let this invention stay in our way of creating a better society. Money, social statuses, countries, ownership, all that is fantasy! If only we can make people see that, then we can use our science-brain and solve problems without being stopped by these fantasies.We have food, let’s feed people. We have cancer treatments, let’s treat people. We want to build a museum, let’s build it. Not via monetary limitations, but volunteer organizations. If we have NOT, then we must at least have NOT enough resources or knowledge. I cannot accept that we have NOT “money”. That is bullshit.
My mission: come with me on this path out of this bullshit human society, and things will emerge. We just need to make people see the world for what it is.
After all if I were to realize that we live in a computer simulation I would FOR SURE react strongly to that and would want to get to the bottom of it!
Imagine if I were to just say: hm yeah, but I still have to eat and survive in this simulation so…is nothing I can do…
I thought now the main focus is to make people realize that we live in a simulation. A human fantasy simulation.So I was like a machine gun, firing videos, documentaries, projects, blog posts, books, articles, memes. I was managing 8 social networks at once. Post everywhere. Podcasts? Yes! Debates? Yes! A new documentary? Yes! More websites? YESSS!
And I was firing them in my immediate environment and the outside world.
And so I spent the past 15 years! In this intense way.I started to get donations so my immediate environment became better. Less stress, more comfortable.
The Rupture.
After so much effort I realized some hard truths.
- Reaching people with these messages is an infinite struggle and has become almost impossible recently. Everyone is consumed on idiotic platforms. No new content can easily reach them. My machineguns were kinda obsolete. I do not have the energy and motivation to make TikTok videos or click baity content…I cannot. And without this you do not exist.
- Even when you reach people their heads are a mush because of so much content online. Too many things people have to deal with. How my message dissolves in these brains is tasteless. They scroll to the next thing.
- Even when the content dissolves in some brains in a tasteful way, these people are also trapped with jobs and other issues.
- The world has become a tsunami of problems and stupidity. From the COVID pandemic with its mental conspiracies orbiting it, to Russia going at war with Ukraine, Israel mass murdering people in Gaza, Trump being a shitshow clown, people murdered, loud political debates, anger, more idiots, more consumerism….
- Organizations and movements like TVP, TZM and the like dissolved.
I realized the outside world is far bigger and more problematic than I thought. And for the past years it expanded infinitely into the stupid, moronic, and violent.
I felt the path leads to nowhere. There is no path. I felt locked into my immediate environment. Friends, family, Tortuga.
I finally have amazing friends and my family is ok. I have a fucking Tortuga! I feel quite safe. I am on my own kinda and can take care of myself. I can go see super nice places out in the world.I am fine. In that sense. But…
I see no path forward, nothing to look up to. No escape from the outside world. I find it impossible to live in my own nice bubble and ignore it. But I also cannot see a path forward.
And this has destroyed me inside. For the first time in 15 years I feel lost. I do not feel motivated to fire up anything at this world: no more books, content, projects. I don’t feel like it is going to have any impact.
I am still super happy to keep our projects alive and relevant. And I hope to also create new content. But it is hard. Even more so when my new lifestyle forces me to interrupt my work every few days. I need to move move move…get water for the motorhome, buy food, get gas, etc..
On the other hand if I were to stay in one place for longer, I would perhaps get even more depressed since I cannot find much joy and hope into creating new stuff and being actively active in my “activism”.
So maybe when I am forced to go from one place to another, is a way to keep me distracted and to allow me to continue, whatever that “continue” means.
I know this is a depressing post. And I have made several like this in the past. But this is the truth. And the truth also is that for the past 2 years or so I could not find a way out for me. Mentally that is.
So at times I am super happy and relaxed, then next day I can be totally down. I fluctuate a lot. And that is bothering me.
There are good things to look forward in my green bubble. A total solar eclipse this year and for that I will meet up with the rarest of humans, those who are smart, sane and kind. Cannot wait for that. I am also enjoying this Tortuga earthship and I look forward to see where she will take me. It is my little bubble and I still fire up some stuff into the outside world via TROM.tf, VideoNeat or TROMjaro. Maybe more will come. IDK.
But I have tried and I am either demotivated to throw content into a blackhole that this world is, or always get interrupted by life.
For now I will try more. And if nothing works, at least I still have my green bubble and I may accept to be comfortable with only that.
And don’t worry I am fine, is perhaps a normal reaction to a shithole society. Maybe I need to go through a rough road of acceptance that there is nothing there in the outside outside world that is hopeful.We will see. At least making this post helps me a bit.
I will eat something. Take a nap. And maybe when I wake up I can even “fire up” some content for TROM. Update my never ending drafts that are meant to become books or videos one day. Because I know that I cannot just stay. I need to do something, even if it goes nowhere.
When the problems are inside of your mind, and you need your mind to fix them, it is harder than climbing the tallest mountain. But it is doable.
Mindaugas
in reply to Tio • • •demesys.org/ (translated "attention")
Translated slogan "Where do you direct your attention?"
It is visualizations about troubles & solutions.
First was about authoritarian power seek: demesys.org/beda-autoritaru-ga…
Second was about psychopathy: demesys.org/beda-psichopatija
Third will be either about political manipulation (another serious trouble), or more likely, will be first solution.
Kur nukreiptas tavo dėmesys? | demesys.org
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in reply to Tio • •@Tio I read the blog post and felt like I could relate to it very well, then I read the comments from @Sasha, @Dima and @Roma and felt like I could relate to those as well 😄
This time I feel like it's not just us, the world has gone to shit in many ways and it seems like everyone is feeling it these days.... The way I would describe it is that our world has lost its peace and sanity, I feel like there is no baseline stability anymore.... We lost our peace with all these wars and violence, when the most corrupt abusers and charlatans got into power. And we lost our sanity when we got hit with a flood of misinformation in the form of conspiracy theories, pseudo
... show more@Tio I read the blog post and felt like I could relate to it very well, then I read the comments from @Sasha, @Dima and @Roma and felt like I could relate to those as well 😄
This time I feel like it's not just us, the world has gone to shit in many ways and it seems like everyone is feeling it these days.... The way I would describe it is that our world has lost its peace and sanity, I feel like there is no baseline stability anymore.... We lost our peace with all these wars and violence, when the most corrupt abusers and charlatans got into power. And we lost our sanity when we got hit with a flood of misinformation in the form of conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, etc. I don't know what happened during covid but all of these BS started gaining a lot of traction during that time, maybe sitting at home all day looking at their phones have made people loose their minds a little bit. And of course all of these things are interconnected, people loosing their sanity helped some of those corrupt assholes get elected, and then they in turn started attacking science and education because they see knowledge as a threat.
This maelstrom of shit has affected projects like TROM and others because people can't be thinking about future progress when there is no baseline stability anymore. Peace and sanity are essential for everyone to just take a break and look at our world, work on improving things, etc. But right now people are overwhelmed, all of us are. There are just too many problems and we can't fight them all at once.... And here I'm talking about the people who actually care about the world and these issues, because I always felt like this was a minority - most people are either busy doing their jobs or busy consuming in this society, now that even their attention is commodified and traded on these internet platforms.
I don't know what the solution here is, in some cases things are outside of our control so all we can do is hope and wait for it to get better.... And in the meantime it might be useful for us to focus on areas where we can actually make some impact in the world, even if by a little, so that if we ever get past this shit-storm people may have some things to look out for.....
P.S. BTW, I just gotta say that I'm kinda impressed with how well you were able to explain this thing (that we were all feeling to some extend) with the use of some simple diagrams made of stick figures and circles 😄 You have a good way of conceptualizing ideas and explaining it to people in a simple manner, that is a skill man.....
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in reply to Rokosun • •Yah the perfect ingredients to create the state of the world. workers busy with work, companies busy with making the workers consume. Busy consuming idiots. Most of the species.
From online platforms to offline organizations, everything got corrupted and became a source of infection.
I very much appreciate this comment. Thank you!
And not to get to cheesy but you give me a bit of hope to see you so young and wise. Down to earth motherfucker :) . You are one of the few that reminds me there are some real humans in this world still.
Thank you for helping with TROM and being you man. Keep on being like that!
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in reply to Tio • •@Tio @Sasha @Dima @Roma
Thank you for the kind words man, I appreciate it 🙂 I'm sure there are a lot of good humans out there, so even if you lost the "outside outside world" perhaps we can still create bridges between these little bubbles that we have 😄
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in reply to Tio • •Recall a time when you felt the most joy and love you've ever felt in your life and feel the feelings that you felt at that time as much as you can for at least 30 seconds. What kinds of thoughts were going through your mind at that peak moment when you felt the most joy and love? (I'm not asking what you were doing at the time, but what thoughts were going through your head at that exact moment.) For many people that answer this, they realize that they didn't have any thoughts during that exact moment. For others, they say that the thought was that they were so grateful or happy.
... show moreFor those that answered that they had the thought that they were grateful, did you feel that joy and love before you had that thought or after? Take 10-15 seconds to answer that question before moving on. What insights and epiphanies did you have? What's crazy is that most people didn't have any thoughts going through their mind when they felt the happiest and the most amount of love in their lives. For those that had the thought that they were grateful, they felt that way before having that though
Recall a time when you felt the most joy and love you've ever felt in your life and feel the feelings that you felt at that time as much as you can for at least 30 seconds. What kinds of thoughts were going through your mind at that peak moment when you felt the most joy and love? (I'm not asking what you were doing at the time, but what thoughts were going through your head at that exact moment.) For many people that answer this, they realize that they didn't have any thoughts during that exact moment. For others, they say that the thought was that they were so grateful or happy.
For those that answered that they had the thought that they were grateful, did you feel that joy and love before you had that thought or after? Take 10-15 seconds to answer that question before moving on. What insights and epiphanies did you have? What's crazy is that most people didn't have any thoughts going through their mind when they felt the happiest and the most amount of love in their lives. For those that had the thought that they were grateful, they felt that way before having that thought. If they had that thought, it happened after they felt the feelings, so the thought could not have produced the feeling. This brings us to another truth:
you do not have to have thoughts or think to feel positive emotions. The beautiful part about truth is that it needs no justification because it can be experienced right here right now. It doesn't need to be proven or rationalized to you and you experienced this truth firsthand by the experiment we just did.
Here's why we don't need to have thoughts or think to feel positive emotions like joy and love.
Our natural state of being IS joy, love, ecstasy, freedom, and gratitude. This may be hard to believe because if it's natural, why don't we feel that way all the time? I'll answer this in a bit.
If we want to see the natural state of anything, one of the best ways is to look at nature and the state of it in its infancy (before it is affected and conditioned by its environment). For example, let's look at the natural state of a baby. What is a baby's natural and default state (assuming the baby wasn't abused, neglected, or had any physical issues)? Are babies naturally stressed, anxious, fearful, and self-conscious? Or are they naturally in a state of bliss, happiness, and love?
Our natural state of being is joy, love, and peace. Therefore, any thinking that we do will only take us away from those natural states of being, which is why whenever we feel extremely stressed, we are having a LOT of thinking going on. The strength of the negative emotion we feel is in direct proportion to how much thinking we are doing in the moment.
On the other hand, the intensity of the positive emotion we feel is inversely proportional to the amount of thinking we are doing in the moment. In other words, the less thinking we have going on, the stronger the positive emotion we feel in the present.
To see the truth in this, recall a few other memories you had when you were extremely stressed and anxious and see how much thinking was going on at the time. Take about 1-2 minutes to do this. Then recall a few memories where you were at your happiest or felt the most joy and love and see how much thinking you had going on at that time. Take another 1-2 minutes to do this before moving on to really experience and internalize the truth of what you see.
An analogy that my coach taught me that helped crystallize this concept was to imagine our mind has a speedometer (like in a car), but instead of miles per hour, it is thoughts per minute. The more thinking we have going on, the higher the “thought-o-meter” goes, and if we have enough thinking going on, it'll go into the red zone. This is when we feel extremely stressed, burned out, frustrated, and angry.
It is not the content of our thinking that causes us stress, but that we are thinking, period. The amount of thinking we have going on is directly correlated to the magnitude of stress and negative emotions we are experiencing at any given moment. When you're experiencing a lot of frustration, stress, anxiety, or any negative emotions, just know that it is because you're thinking, and the intensity of those emotions is directly correlated to how much thinking is going on. Therefore, it's not WHAT we're thinking about that is causing us suffering, but THAT we are thinking.
To summarize, we do not have to try to "think positive" to experience love, joy, bliss, and any positive emotions we want because it is our natural state to feel those emotions. The only times we don't naturally feel these emotions is when we begin to think about the thoughts we're having, thus blocking the direct connection to Infinite Intelligence and we feel stressed, anxious, depressed, and fearful. It is not about the content of our thinking, but that we're thinking, which is the root cause of our suffering. The intensity of the negative emotions is directly correlated to the amount of thinking we have going on in the present. The less thinking we have, the more space we create for positive emotions to naturally surface.
Reference:
Nguyen, J. (2024) Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is the Beginning & End of Suffering (Expanded Edition). [Hardcover] Authors Equity. ISBN 9798893310153.