TLDR; This newsletter strives to help you stop projecting onto your life, and instead embrace it ⤵
Hey fren!
Welcome to Wuwei 無為 by Rae Chuck.
This is my newsletter and blog where I am supporting the narrative that happiness and fulfilment exists within you with essays, poetry, opportunities and lived examples.
If you are an old soul looking for rest and are tired of feeling shame for existing, then you have found your tribe, and another reflection of your energy on this page.
Who is this for?
This newsletter is really for anyone hoping to be filled with joy and nostalgia at the end of a long life filled with memories of adventure, mystery and magic. But to take this imagery further, I imagine you to be an kindred spirit who is tired of feeling guilt and shame for existing. Someone who has been working tirelessly, for reasons not completely clear to them. To your upmost frustration, you spiral away in anxiety over expectations from people who you don’t necessarily envy. I imagine you are inspired most by stories of simple pleasures, and humble origins. You are horrified by the state of the world, and struggle with understanding your part in it at all. Yet deep down, you crave to connect deeply with this world— to love deeply, to feel deeply, to have deep conversations, to fall in love, fall in love with literature, to be continually learning and to travel the world.
Essentially, I am speaking to myself, because I am yet another mirror of you.
True human happiness is a balance of several things, not just success on paper.
It is far too common for us as people to postpone happiness until we have too many regrets to salvage it. We have heard countless times that money or fame is not the key, and bore witness in media and in our communities of that, too. Yet, we chase the common milestones in life anyways, because it is too scary to stray away from the set path. Surely validation (what we often perceive as success) is an integral key to happiness, but it is not by any standards the main key to happiness and we should be treating it that way. Our careers and big life decisions should come out of the choices we make to suit the self in the present, rather than our choices be confined to the self we want to see in the future. We shouldn’t strive ‘to be anyone’, but instead see who we are in living motion and derive beauty and meaning from that.
This newsletter strives to loosen your grip on projections, and help you to create fulfilment and joy in the present, outside of any social expectations.
Here's how I believe we achieve that:
practising inner work — you won’t be able to enjoy any of the things you receive and experience if you don’t work on your mindset and capacity for pleasure.
centring community — the balance between giving and receiving and the forgoing of hyper-individualistic concepts.
expanding our perspectives —
doing more of what we believe in —
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About Me
I'm Rae, a Chinese-Jamaican 🇯🇲🇨🇳 #thirdculturekid creator 🐉 on an adventure of self-acceptance and inner-peace. More tangibly, I’m building my perfect career on the internet and working on becoming an EU Resident. I’m learning how to grow in a healthy and sustainable way, while helping others do the same!
Being a racially ambiguous, non-binary, neurodivergent person from small island Jamaica, living with Lupus, an invisible illness, abroad in Sweden. One can say I’m the definition of [grey area], and as such, it’s taken me a long time to create belonging inside of my heart, to feel safe to be who I am and to love that person in the process.
I hope to inspire others to embrace themselves more and create lives they’re in love with ♡
I love tech, planning, personal development, any creative outlet, and most of all the stories of compassionate people.
If any of this resonates, we’ll get along swell!
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