Here are 10 things that you shouldn’t feel compelled to explain to others
We all have moments, decisions, or preferences that we keep to ourselves, buried under layers of social niceties and expectations.
You might find yourself constantly justifying your choices or feelings, unsure if it’s normal to guard certain aspects of your life so fiercely.
However, psychology tells us that there are certain things we simply don’t owe anyone an explanation for. It’s important…
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A self-love letter to myself
The courage of white flag: total surrender
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I thought the cat disapeared after being quarantined
Sunday morning: the cat wakes me up in its usual way, by leaping on to my chest and placing a paw over my mouth to stop me crying out. I open my eyes, and the cat leans in.
“Miaow,” it says, meaning: let’s go.
“It’s Sunday,” I say.
“Miaow,” says the cat, meaning: you, me, downstairs, now.
“It’s 7.30,” I say. “Too early.”
But it’s not too early. We’ve got five people coming for lunch, our…
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When you walk away from your troubles
When you walk away from your troubles,
there are no good byes to be said.
When you walk away from your troubles,
there are no tears to be shed
because all you have lost is trouble.
When you walk away from your troubles,
there is no sadness felt for all that you have left behind.
When you walk away from your troubles,
there can be no regrets
for the good decision you have made for…
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Walk your own path
Walk your own path
If there is any advice I would universally give to every person, regardless of who they are, it is this: walk your own path.
Walk your own damn path.
Don’t walk someone else’s path. Don’t walk the path your parents predestined for you just because you feel emotionally indebted to them. Don’t walk a path that appears to be yours, but is actually society’s fabricated ideal of who you ‘should’ be.…
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The Choices I made in 2022
The Choices I made in 2022
Now is the time when we look back over the past year and wonder: how did I do? Did I make the right decisions? Could I have made better ones?
Well, could you? A determinist who believes that the world unfolds in an inexorably preordained manner would say not. If, on the other hand, you believe in free will, you might feel sure that other decisions were available to you, other paths not taken. “I…
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These are the greatest pleasures ever known in human existence
10. Accidentally falling asleep on the couch
Eating fast food on a long car rideBaking a cake and having it turn out perfectA full moon close to the horizon that looks out of this worldA bird coming up to you to eat out of your handLaughing with someone so hard you cry and it hurts but you can’t stopThe excitement of watching your loved one walk over to you through a crowded airportYour baby…
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These are the greatest see ever known in human existence
“1. Accidentally falling asleep on the couchEating fast food on a long car ride
Baking a cake and having it turn out perfect
A full moon close to the horizon that looks out of this world
A bird coming up to you to eat out of your hand
Laughing with someone so hard you cry and it hurts but you can’t stop
The excitement of watching your loved one walk over to you through a crowded…
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My New Year resolutions? None. I'm tired of disappointing myself!
My New Year resolutions? None. I’m tired of disappointing myself!
Anxiety dominates my thinking about work, social engagements, the stupid day-to-day admin of being a human – and it doesn’t achieve anything
Over the years, I have learned a few strategies for making new year resolutions: keep them simple, tell as few people about them as possible and do not under any circumstances write them down.
I’ve learned this the hard way. One year I announced – under…
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Dear Diary-Version 2022
I have written Google Docs diary entries in the past week. Mostly I do so via the Google app on my phone in a document titled Written Version of 2022. It contains everything you might imagine – slipshod accounts of nights out and lists of everything I recall drinking, lines from poems and films and songs, screenshots of paintings, recipes, scraps of news, seasonally dependent paeans or fury…
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I have gone analogue by buying an alarm clock for my bedroom
I have gone analogue by buying an alarm clock for my bedroom
have reinstated the alarm clock. An overlooked mechanism in today’s technologically-synced, your-phone-does-everything world, it tells the time, it wakes you up, it is decentralized from a phone. It is marvelous.
Why? Because before I brought an analogue clock back into my bedroom I was averaging two hours and 56 minutes of screen time per week, and my phone told me this every Monday, moments…
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As for now,Hydrogen Fuel still remains a carbon emmiting process
As for now,Hydrogen Fuel still remains a carbon emmiting process
Hydrogen has stolen the heart of many a clean energy wonk. But with big investments on the horizon, its climate credentials are coming under deepening scrutiny.
Depending on how it’s made, transported and consumed, hydrogen can be a zero-carbon renewable dream — or a carbon-intensive, business-as-usual dirty fuel. The Energy Department is betting that with enough government support, it can be…
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Kenya Airways is just one expensive advert banner for a hollow business
Kenya Airways is just one expensive advert banner for a hollow business
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, offers flights to over 56 destinations in 39 countries. This should be a remarkable feat in these waning days of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Standing out among the brightly coloured aircraft on the field is the black, red, and green tail of the Kenyan flag. This aircraft livery belongs to the national flag carrier of Kenya, Kenya Airways.…
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Destined to be free,happy and alone
Destined to be free,happy and alone
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by Aletheia · Dec 20, 2022 · 54 Comments
In our hyper-connected world, where the very fabric of our society is being remodeled and reshaped by technology at a lightning-quick pace, and where the old institutions that once held us together (e.g., religion) are crumbling, it’s only natural that an increasing number of us are feeling lonely.
As a result of mass…
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Why do I need to meet up with people I rarely see during the year for Christmas celebration?
Why do I need to meet up with people I rarely see during the year for Christmas celebration?
Christmas time. It’s noisy, materialistic, and socially overwhelming.
Most people plan for it, spend for it, live for it, and dread it all at the same time, each year.
In our society, the Christmas ideal is to sit around a heavily bedazzled tree or heftily set dinner table with every member of our family and friendship circles.
But the truth is, many of us don’t meet or fulfil that ideal.…
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Get in touch with your spiritual awakening this chrismas
Get in touch with your spiritual awakening this chrismas
Going through a spiritual awakening is one of the most confusing, lonely, alienating, but also supremely beautiful experiences in life.
Put simply, spiritual awakenings mark the beginning of your initiation on the spiritual path. Without experiencing a spiritual awakening, we go throughout life pursuing the emptiness of money, fame, power, and respect in an attempt to find “happiness.”
The…
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Going through an existential crisis brings you closer to your own truth
Going through an existential crisis brings you closer to your own truth
“Someone who is broken … who has struggled all his or her life with some intense deficiency, may have a uniquely powerful relationship with God.”
The hardest thing about going through an existential crisis is that you feel constantly depressed and alienated.Nothing makes sense anymore and everything feels meaningless – including all of your old accomplishments, desires, professional attachments,…
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