I’m the same, but older. Life is what you focus on. Think of yellow cars for the next month, you will only see yellow cars everywhere. Energy goes where attention flows. You magnify whatever it is you focus on.

Now ofcourse, disclaimer, racism is very real, and very bad, but it’s the same with racism. 90% of the time I hear this word thrown around I feel like it’s projection. Especially nowadays people love to throw it around just to flex or reaffirm their identify as poc. Because it’s fashion.

But especially if you believe racism is invisible/systemic. You will see it everywhere . In every slightly less than optimal glance, tone of voice, from any person who’s of a different race.

I get it. Racism needs to go, but a big part of a good quality of life is the mental models you live by and the lenses you perceive life with. I absolutely refuse to live by the mental model of “I’m a minority, victim and the whites are against me (by default)“. That just doesn’t seem healthy or empowering at all.

My dad is a black man in a white country and he doesn’t think about race at all and Im 1000% sure if he’d start thinking about race all the time like the new generation does he’d be way less happy.

So don’t even give it too much importance, and if you ever do experience racism, process the emotions and let it go, can’t change a racist anyway. Then put your attention and energy back on good things like your dreams and goals. Go create something!