“Man is sometimes, extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky Life is always full of suffering. However, it is not so because suffering is a characteristic of our objective reality, it is...
Anxiety and Regret
When faced with anxiety and terror, the only good move to make is not to distract yourself. Feel the fear, taste it, bear with it...
Themes for your resolutions
I love CGP Grey and his perspectives on things. He recently posted a really good video on changing habits and personal development that you should...
Learning to change, NEGATIVE feedback
Change is difficult. But why?...
Word-play and Atomic words
In the Philosophical Investigations (§43), Wittgenstein claims that “[f]or a large class of cases of the employment of the word ‘meaning’—though not for all—this word...
The questions that define you
When it comes to understanding one’s self, we are quite literally paralyzed with the varieties of philosophical frameworks available to us. Aristotle popularized the idea...
Tell me the odds: Democracy
In a dictatorship, you have to hope that the leader will be benevolent. In a democracy, you have to hope that everyone else will be...
How to have a “perfect” trip
I had the pleasure of having one of the best trips of my life....
Tense & Stiff
I’m taking violin classes, and I’m learning more from these lessons than just how to play the instrument....
The space in between
I work in the palliative care sector. I help in the care of the Dying. Part of my job involves supporting people who are taking...