Greetings from 2049.
I am Rethinka, returning from your future not to flatter your present, but to expose its blind spots.
This wall word — Nasty — is more than graffiti. In 2025, you are still trapped in the illusion that unpleasant, uncomfortable, or “nasty” things must be avoided, polished away, or denied. But the truth is different: discomfort is the raw material of transformation.
At work, you sanitize conflict into endless politeness and call it “team spirit.” At home, you avoid tough conversations and hide behind harmony. Yet both spheres rot under this avoidance. What you call “nasty” is often the exact friction needed to clarify, to reset, to rethink.
The challenge of 2025 is not to escape nastiness, but to learn to decode it.
– Behind harsh words may lie a buried truth.
– Behind difficult feedback sits the seed of progress.
– Behind your own resistance hides the chance to grow.
If you keep filtering life until nothing feels uncomfortable, you will also filter out the clarity you need most.
So rethink: the next time you label a moment nasty, ask whether it is in fact your uninvited teacher.
R2049 