The logical thing to do

Maggie Tong
2 min readNov 21, 2020

We need more illogical people. We need introverts. People who rarely speak up. People we overlooked. People who aren’t manipulative or tempted by climbing ladders in society that don’t even exist. We need people who are way beyond current social currencies.

Our world is fucked in so many ways due to us trying to be “logical”. Clearly “logic” by our standards today doesn’t work. I’m led to believe that we need to start being illogical cause shit is so fucked up we should at this point be emptying the back of the cupboard desperately trying to find solutions. While things like racism, climate change, poverty etc are all very real and current things, I failed to realize that we are already in a time and space where humanity is desperate in many ways.

What a shame for me not to think about that desperation just because I myself am considered “comfortable right now”. How long am I banking on that while the rest of the world literally burns? Literally. Have you seen the news? Most of us realize normal never really was a thing that worked anyway. And if there was, we’re never going back to it thanks to a global pandemic.

Awhile ago I asked my partner this: If you could be any pharmaceutical drug that existed today, what would you be? He told me LSD. Not for it’s ability to be some fun thing people do on a day off, but for it’s potential ability to open up…

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Maggie Tong
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Hi! I’m Mag. You can find me at my blog mindovermag.com along with some of my artwork. I love writing and thinking too much.