<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Daniel Felix]]></title><description><![CDATA[Daniel Felix]]></description><link>https://danielfelix538639.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jnaM!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd45a1d76-ff79-4749-9399-39d2b6269701_2316x3088.heic</url><title>Daniel Felix</title><link>https://danielfelix538639.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:07:18 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://danielfelix538639.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Daniel Felix]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[danielfelix538639@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[danielfelix538639@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Daniel Felix]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Daniel Felix]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[danielfelix538639@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[danielfelix538639@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Daniel Felix]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[THE MOUNTAIN IS ME ]]></title><description><![CDATA[My core need is the opposite of my core commitment.]]></description><link>https://danielfelix538639.substack.com/p/the-mountain-is-me</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://danielfelix538639.substack.com/p/the-mountain-is-me</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Felix]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 21:48:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DBhE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdb432bf-38fd-4f30-af09-eb349840e840_2316x3088.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My core need is the opposite of my core commitment. And my core need is another water of identifying my purpose. I want to learn to live life on my own terms this helps me to stop self sabotaging, I know what I want to do and what I need to do but I&#8217;m. Being held back by my own fears of feeling. </p><p>The first thing to overcome in my is the feeling of resistance and by those so I need to inspire my visions to speak louder than my fears I&#8217;m not close to where I want to be in life I need to aim. For more </p><p>Self sabotaging tells me that there is a problem which stills sits unresolved in me that needs me to pay attention to deeply.  </p><p>I&#8217;ll start by writing a letter to my younger self from the perspective of my future self not from the place of my present self. </p><p>Dear Daniel, </p><p>     Being you has to be the strongest thing ever in life, while growing up I couldn&#8217;t remember one day I celebrated my birthday it was just like all normal days to me </p><p>I remember vividly the first birthday I planned for my</p><p>Younger sister Ada I was based on me and chima savings then my elder brother sidelined us and shared it all out without thinking about us, I know that day my inner child was hurt I felt pained or was it when he always choose outsider&#8217;s over us, even till this day it&#8217;s still an habit. Love is one thing that is far from my family both extended and immediate we have never as a family come together to do one thing in love it hurts to an extent not to feel love or a definition of what it is to be loved and accepted I carried this perception into senior secondary school basically when I entered Mena college I found it hard to belong, I was treated as an outcast till the extent that I went as far as framing to be someone else to has a decent conversation with Ayobami the first girl I fell in love with who never in question loved me back. &#129401;&#129401;&#129401; funny as it sounds I sacrificed my time for her and still I wasn&#8217;t enough that phase faded, see Daniel I know that now the best love you can ever give Is the one you give to yourself and allow yourself to feel. It doesn&#8217;t hurt to be real with yourself and loving yourself is self care . I feel like writing more but I can&#8217;t get myself to fit the experience entirely I&#8217;ll keep writing to you more and more Daniel </p><p>I love you &#10084;&#65039; Daniel so much because you are you</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DBhE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdb432bf-38fd-4f30-af09-eb349840e840_2316x3088.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DBhE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdb432bf-38fd-4f30-af09-eb349840e840_2316x3088.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DBhE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdb432bf-38fd-4f30-af09-eb349840e840_2316x3088.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DBhE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdb432bf-38fd-4f30-af09-eb349840e840_2316x3088.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DBhE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdb432bf-38fd-4f30-af09-eb349840e840_2316x3088.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DBhE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdb432bf-38fd-4f30-af09-eb349840e840_2316x3088.jpeg" width="2316" height="3088" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bdb432bf-38fd-4f30-af09-eb349840e840_2316x3088.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;height&quot;:3088,&quot;width&quot;:2316,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:0,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DBhE!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdb432bf-38fd-4f30-af09-eb349840e840_2316x3088.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DBhE!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdb432bf-38fd-4f30-af09-eb349840e840_2316x3088.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DBhE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdb432bf-38fd-4f30-af09-eb349840e840_2316x3088.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DBhE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbdb432bf-38fd-4f30-af09-eb349840e840_2316x3088.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>