One evening, as I was preparing to fall asleep, my brain decided it was the perfect time to go full gear with crazed thoughts of the what was and what will be. And in the middle of all that—the ‘what is’ was up to the neck with self-inflicted worry. As you may know, dear reader, things like this never […]
“Beware of Idiots” and Six Other Things a 20-Year-Old Should Hear At Least Once a Year Read More »
I’ve met many kinds of folks—folks who lived for the day, folks who could see years into the future, folks who made every word they said feel like a hammered nail in the annals of history. I’ve met folks who are unlike any other, extraordinary would be an understatement. They weren’t special in the conventional
An Homage to The Humans Who Feel Like Light Read More »
One comes across a variety of content while surfing the web. Some are educational; these you save and never look at again. Others are life-saving, like that video of a dog and a cat snuggling. But every once in a while, the algorithm slides you a chunk of sobering truth—reality stripped of embellishments and presented
Parkinson’s Law, The Deadly History of Deadlines, and A View of Time as a Vessel Read More »
You are not you and I am not me. At least not to other people. Who we are inside our heads is not the same as the ‘we’ that exists in the minds of others. As Patrick Rothfuss wrote, “everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time.” In the
From The Divine, Fate and The Stories We Tell Ourselves: An Invitation to Live Read More »
Time to kill ANTs. No, I don’t mean those ants. I mean this: Automatic Negative Thoughts. Before the pandemic made hanging out with other human beings feel illegal, I spent a lot of time with people—people who wore socks with little Pikachus on them, people who listened to rap music, people whose laugh you could
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