Even if you were right, friend, and that all strings are being pulled by puppeteers in the shadows, what does that mean for us, the puppets? What is it that we are supposed to do with this information that is so clear to you? It doesn’t suddenly give us options, a code of conduct to […]
Another year has gone by, and I might be inclined to say that I’ve learned nothing, or rather that I now value curiosity over false certainty, and to prefer kindness over a need to assert my “rightness” in arguments. I hear a lot of the phrase “it’s not mean if it’s true”, and I would […]
“It is not that we have a brief length of time to live, but that we squander a great deal of that time. Life is sufficiently long, and has been granted with enough generosity for us to accomplish the greatest things, provided that in its entirety it is well invested; but when it is dissipated […]
I recently finished reading a collection of books that I bought that are essentials for Stoic philosophy, which include The Discourses and Handbook of Epictetus, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Pierre Hadot’s The Inner Citadel, and The Moral Letters of Seneca. While studying this philosophy, I felt more personal permission to be very sloppy with […]
Social media is a very interesting place. It’s where you can join a group that’s meant to include people all interested in the same things, and still watch, in the comments of each post, a battle royale of differing opinions, all just as loud as one as one another, and all apparently lacking in spell-check. […]
Part of my personal development is to just put my emotions aside and get things done, outside of my perfectionistic nature, which is very unproductive, being that I don’t start until I have an idea of what the perfect outcome is, and once I’ve started, not feeling complete until it has been done in the […]
For all the work I’ve done, all the things I think that I know, I have a narrative running in my head that the only authentic emotion that I’m allowed to feel is an overwhelming feeling of deep sadness, of worthlessness, of hopelessness. It feels too damn real to ignore, and everything else feels like […]