Deed of Title to the inner life, entire and undivided

Know all persons by these presents: the holdings described below belong to the reader. They were never purchased and cannot be sold. They can, however, be quietly leased away, and mostly they are. This instrument records what the estate contains, and what it costs to let outside parties manage it before the owner has walked the grounds alone.

Schedule A The estate

Being a partial inventory. The full survey takes a lifetime and is the point.

The attention: The ground itself. Everything else on the estate is built on it.
The taste: What you actually like, as distinct from what you were most recently shown.
The anger: Load-bearing. It points at what you value, though rarely in a straight line.
The boredom: The only honest surveyor on staff. Routinely dismissed within the minute.
The wanting: Part original, part inherited from the neighbors. The deed does not distinguish. The owner must.
The convictions: Frequently discovered in the possession of whoever spoke last, and returned worn.
The dread, small hours: Old wiring. Still carries current. Worth learning which room it lights before paying a stranger to guess.

Schedule B Encumbrances of record

Holdings presently under management by outside parties.

The taste leased to the recommendation engine rent collected in hours
The opinions held in trust by the timeline rent collected in certainty
The calm sublet to an app, monthly rent collected at each renewal
The memory stored offsite with the camera roll rent collected at the moment itself
The sense of how it is going pledged to the metrics rent collected in mornings
The naming of feelings contracted to the quiz, the type, the chart rent collected in vocabulary

All leases run month to month. No lessee on record has ever declined a renewal.

Schedule C Covenants

The owner agrees to hold each feeling for the length of one kettle, unnamed, before asking any outside party what it is.
Help of every kind remains permitted, counsel, therapy, prayer, even software, on one condition: the owner arrives carrying a first draft.
Management is not ownership. No adviser, algorithm, or audience acquires title by handling the property well, or often.
Neglect does not transfer title either. Unattended, the estate remains the owner's. It simply grows strange to them.
This deed renews each morning, whether or not it is read.

Addendum In plain hand

None of this argues against help. Owners delegate. That is half of what owning is for. The order of operations is the whole question.

A feeling sent out after you have sat with it comes back with a second opinion. Sent out before, it comes back with its first, and you will mistake that opinion for yours. The feed files its opinion daily.

So walk the grounds first. Take the inventory in your own hand. Then hire anyone you like.

the owner, in their own hand

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