Life, Uncertainty & Cynicism
"Look at the stars", the old man said, “tiny beacons of light inside a beautiful ocean of emptiness. Breathtaking and completely pointless.” He looked at me and smiled. “None of them matters. Not a single one. They are as insignificant as you and I. But buried beneath this irrelevance lies power. Your power. One day [...]
Life is a cynical comedy. Not all the time but it tends to punch you in the gut when you least expect it. Here I was, thinking I made so much progress. Refined my thoughts over the past months and years. Created new mental frameworks I felt comfortable living with. On a solid trajectory towards [...]
The ten frequent readers of this blog will have noticed a common theme among the last few essays I published in recent months. They all danced around one main idea: the importance of self-esteem. I talked extensively about the whys and the hows of creating and maintaining a sense of value for yourself and the [...]
Life is full of disappointments. The earlier we learn and accept this, the better. As a part-time child prodigy who got told for the better part of his early life that he had so much potential and could achieve incredible things, I wasn’t exactly on the best path to figure out how to deal with [...]
For quite a while now I had this idea in my head. An idea which focuses on an aspect of my life I haven’t talked about as much as other things. The handful of readers of this blog are fully aware by now that over the years I had to deal with a lot of [...]
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