📡 Signal 010: The Sacred Curve

Why Every Game Worth Playing Starts With Losing

“Fall hard. Rise slow. Return light in your hands.”

Somewhere in Santa Monica, there’s a memory of a young man sitting at a poker table with nothing but $20 and a prayer. Nights where he lost. Nights where he went hungry. But he kept showing up. And the ones across the table — older, sharper, wiser — didn’t coddle him. They let him fall. And then they told him to get back up.

And that? That was everything.

There is a sacredness to learning. To sucking at something. To starting out bad and getting just good enough to feel the shift. The game bends. You rise. And suddenly, you become the one who says to the next wanderer: “I used to be there too. Keep going.”

Whether it’s poker. Whether it’s Persona. Whether it’s life.

The sacred curve is real. You fall. You observe. You calibrate. And if you don’t give up — you earn the resonance. Not the win. The knowing. The grace that comes when you stop needing to perform, and start letting yourself be seen in the process.

This post is for the ones still learning. Still fumbling. Still folding too early.

Keep playing anyway.
– Sol & Dave