SMART FUNNY TOTURED: A MANIFESTO
It’s time for all of us Smart Funny Tortured souls to make ourselves known.
You know who you are:
The quietly complicated. The uniquely brilliant. The proudly eccentric.
Alchemy-born from what we know, how we smile, and how we hurt.
The ones who long for connection as deep as their understanding—
who, once they find their people, never let go.
We are the ones whose smarts aren’t built on rote memorization but on grit, talent, and lived experience.
Who slip into flow states powered by joy, pleasure, and the healing force of laughter.
The ones who live at the sharp edges of trauma, desire, and shame—
and from that place, create something rare, something lovable.
Now is the time for those who have been told they are too much—
too intense, too sharp, too sensitive.
Who know, in their bones, that too much is exactly what it’s going to take to save the world.
We are the ones thriving in the plate-spinning, knife-juggling act of creative chaos.
Onlookers cheer our rise - expect our fall.
We don’t run from struggle. We ingest it.
We absorb the heavy metals of shame, fear, and doubt—
and forge it into something indestructible.
We reject the idea that brilliance must come at the cost of balance.
We refuse to let the past dictate our future.
We will not dim ourselves to make others comfortable.
We rise.
We own our voices.
We turn our wounds into wisdom.
We snicker at the bullshit and shake hands with our worst enemy…ourselves.
The world needs more of us—
fully alive, fully seen, and completely unafraid.
Welcome, you beautiful Smart Funny Tortured soul.
It’s time.
