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03/03/2026

03/01/2026

No accountability.
No one to challenge my thinking.
Just habits and a quiet agreement to stay the same.

There was no companionship.
There was no meaning.

Collapse let me disappear.
Healing forced me to stay and be seen.

I am accountable to that now.

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02/28/2026

I chose to vanish, ghosting family, friends.

Every important moment and dressed it up as "doing my own thing."

Truth: My "independence" was drugs pulling me away, one high at a time.

Being present for the people who needed me would've meant more than any solo escape ever could.
Showing up > checking out.

Recovery taught me: real strength is staying, not running.:

02/27/2026

Wealth is a hollow measure of a life lived well; it can fill a room without ever warming a home. I have learned that showing up for the people who need you is the only currency that never devalues. Our true net worth isn't found in a bank statement, but in the steady rhythm of our kin's hearts.

If this resonates with you, I invite you to click the link or the image to explore the memoir these reflections are pulled from. Twice a week, I share new chapters—free to read and open to all. Should you ever choose to donate, 100% of those proceeds go directly to the Huntington’s Disease Society of America, a cause I hold closer than any other.

This Substack’s born in South Dakota then later the UP, Michigan—vast, empty hell where I made a trailer my kingdom of one, grinded poker in glorious isolation, then fled to cities with actual humans. Click to read Negging The Universe - Wesley Ismay's Memoir, a Substack publication. Launched 15...

02/26/2026

Sometimes we forget the important things in life: those we love.

This Substack’s born in South Dakota then later the UP, Michigan—vast, empty hell where I made a trailer my kingdom of one, grinded poker in glorious isolation, then fled to cities with actual humans. Click to read Negging The Universe - Wesley Ismay's Memoir, a Substack publication. Launched 15...

02/26/2026

This Substack’s born in South Dakota then later the UP, Michigan—vast, empty hell where I made a trailer my kingdom of one, grinded poker in glorious isolation, then fled to cities with actual humans. Click to read Negging The Universe - Wesley Ismay's Memoir, a Substack publication. Launched 14...

02/26/2026

Going to post top 15 quotes from my memoir in meme format henceforth.