Life, Uncertainty & Cynicism
For a long time I had no idea who I was. Or supposed to be. The eternal question of “Who am I?” was always somewhere on my mind. Sometimes front and centre, sometimes laying dormant in the back but never gone completely. Sure, I had a few ideas about what I enjoyed doing and how [...]
I was eleven years old when I wanted to kill myself for the first time. Now, two decades later, I don’t feel that same burning despair in me anymore. But the fact that I even made it so far, was more a matter of lucky coincidences and the combined help of some wonderful people, rather [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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