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 [...]
One day, we will be no more. One day, all that is left of us are memories. One day, even those pictures of the past will fade. One day, we will return to the stars we once emerged from. Room Of Broken Dreams I buried a lot of myself in the past. Ideas of what [...]
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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