Date: 2025-05-19

Not plug and play

Remember the time you thought you wanted something refined like
a beautiful piece of music or a handcrafted tool and when you finally
got it, it felt underwhelming? Something that should be extraordinary,
whether some art, some hardware, or even food or friendship, some
person near you and you was like dissapointed or confused, it felt
even worse then regular, random thing and you saw some obvious defects
in it?

You bought something very expensive, prised by gods in particular
field and you was almost unable to use it and definitely not enjoy it.
You meet some of your idol, some hero, some guru and you immediatelly
found many missing parts, some annoying parts and many errors?

Good things, truly good, quality expressions of this universe, of
human intelligence or the masterpiece of nature are not visible by
default. They are hidden, very well hidden from swines ;/

Real value often hides behind effort, unfamiliarity, or discomfort.
It is not available for everyone who is walking around, it's the best
what life can offer, one has to earn it. By default one usually does
not like masterpiece of classical music or some performance with deep
thought. Cheap is easy, Real quality isn't instant, it's earned
through understanding and change.

Just imagine someting simple as pencil. If you want to use the best
one or better said, really good one, you will probably not get it in
a week. Technically you can, but you will not experience it fully. It
can takes months or years to dig deeper into that subject, testing,
trying, learning. Even if you get some ranked list, which one is
the best overall, it may not be the best for you and most probably it
will be not. It would be just good piece which is good in many aspects
of drawing or writing on some surface. Will you use that pencil that
way? Probably not, you need something for your hand and mind, not just
"the best overall", but "the best for you". Then after a long jurney
of learning, testing, trying, you still need to make the most
important step and the step which is only required to get whole
quality from that pencil. You have to change yourself the way, that
pencil will resonate with you. You can't change pencil, only way is,
that you change. You will not simply draw a picture with it like you
did as a kid with some pastels. You will move with it differently.

Let's join here for a moment my last article about boring articles
online. If you truly do something with your whole existence, with your
heart, like digging in your garden or mixing food in your kitchen and
you love it so much, that you even need to bother people on the
internet with it, that may be something of the real value, something
without a competition. Be careful, it's rare ;/

True actions and things can't compete with anything, you can't even
compare it to something else, because they have own "standards". They
are standards by themself. They don't play by rules of mediocrity.

Your logic often has to go aside. You can't even explain it or
justify. Your pencil may be expensive and everyone around you will
think you are an idiot. Your drawings will be not welcome on most
places and maybe nobody will like it at all. If you take a picture of
some random naked woman, most men will like it at first sight. If you
take the most beautiful art or writing that will be not the case.

We sometimes experience those die hard fans of something and we can
demolish them by logic, by numbers, by facts, technical details, price
performance ratio or whatever. But the truth is often, that they are
happy, they enjoy the thing and everything is perfect on their side.
We are just jealousy about it, so we have the needs to prove them,
their happiness is fake ;/ We show them statistics, papers, studies
how they are wrong. It change nothing, they continue to shine, no
matter how much shade we try to create. It may sometime even feel like
physical laws don't apply to them.

The good, the beautiful, the true, these aren't given by default. You
have to grow into them, work for them, become someone who can even
recognize them. It takes a conscious override of your defaults.

Real value is not obvious or immediately attractive. Your first
instincts, your "default settings" often favor what's easy, cheap, or
superficial. You must choose to change. You aren't born with refined
taste, moral clarity, or wisdom. You have to grow into it.

The default settings of life, like those of a machine are designed for
survival, not for meaning.