An Unstable Journey

Wow. The Unstable meme is already 45 days old.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from these past 45 days --
from markets, from relationships, from life itself -- it’s this:

Natural instability can be painful, but it is almost always worth it.
Forced stability can be calming, but it is often a facade.

We live in systems that resist the dip.
But the dip is where the truth lives.

Markets

Volatility hurts. But it clears the rot.
Bitcoin has crashed 80% multiple times, yet it survives.
Each crash is a reset, a stress test, a truth-teller.

Contrast that with UST/Luna. It held its peg. Until it didn't.
That "calm" was engineered, and when the lie broke, it didn't bend. It collapsed.

USDC says it's “fully backed,” but it's ultimately built on US Treasuries.
And Treasuries are backed by a government $34 trillion in debt.
That’s not stability. That’s confidence, priced daily.

Stability faked is stability that can’t flex.
And when trust cracks, the peg becomes the point of failure.

Relationships

Real relationships wobble.

They shake under hard conversations.
They strain under distance, silence, uncertainty.

But those are the very conditions where trust is forged or revealed.

Forced stability? That’s staying together because you're scared to leave.
Pretending it’s "fine" to avoid confrontation.
Rot, quietly accumulating beneath the surface.

Mental Health

Meditation isn’t calm.
It's raw instability witnessed, not repressed.

Your thoughts pull you apart.
Your emotions spike, loop and unravel.
But in sitting through them, you begin to see them. Name them. Loosen their grip.

Repress them? Fake the smile? You'll look stable.
But the chaos goes underground, until it doesn’t.

Physics

Quantum mechanics is the science of instability.
Particles explore every path. The ones that align become reality. The rest cancel out.

Nothing is still. Nothing moves in straight lines.
Stability doesn’t come from suppressing chaos -- it emerges when it finds rhythm.

Biology

Your body thrives on controlled chaos.

Fever fights infection.
Inflammation sparks healing.
Mutations fuel evolution.

Suppress it all and you invite fragility.
Superbugs. Burnout. System failure masked as temporary relief.

Software Systems

The strongest systems embrace volatility.

Netflix runs Chaos Monkey to deliberately break things in production.
Why? Because if you only test in calm, your system only survives calm.

Over-stabilize, and you guarantee collapse.

Life

We plan. We pick the safe job. We try to stay clean, clear, correct.

But life doesn’t care.

You burn out. You lose someone. The plan stops working.

That’s the dip.
And it’s not a detour. It’s the real road.

Unstable isn’t a rejection of structure.
It’s a rejection of simulation.

A coin that doesn’t peg.
A meme that doesn’t promise calm.
A movement that knows the dip isn’t death -- it’s breath.

Volatility is utility.
In markets. In love. In healing. In code. In truth.

So next time you hit a dip, remember:
That’s the system working.
That’s the tension that teaches.
That’s Unstable.