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To An Audience of None
I often struggle with keeping my composure on matters that I value greatly, lately it’s about frugality and financial literacy. Social media is bombarded with examples of people doing the opposite or demonstrating acts that are contrary to what I deem to be correct. In some perspectives, perhaps, I could…
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Don’t Be Afraid of Dying, but Rather of Not Living
You can be alive but not living. Is it a weird idea? They seem to contradict each other, but as a matter of fact, I meet a lot of people who are not living, I could even say that I was one of them at one point. But with so…
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Take All Things As They Are
Marcus Aurelius reminded to himself: Never value anything as profitable to thyself which shall compel thee to break thy promise, to lose thy self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything which needs walls and curtains: for he who has preferred to…
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I went home to find myself, and found someone else
For a long time, I felt lost, unsure of what happiness truly meant and what truly mattered in life. It wasn’t until a few years ago, during the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic, that I experienced a profound moment of self-realization—one that began with an unexpected encounter with my…
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Hype & Hustle! How Slowing Down Saves you Money
Blog Cover Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The song went: so much to do, so much to see, so what’s wrong with taking the back seat? I feel overwhelmed sometimes when life moves so fast, that I can’t seem to process everything and the worst feeling is that I…
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AI Photos & The Disingenuous Bastard
AI is taking over the world, this remarkable technology allows people to create digital content rapidly, often in mere seconds. It’s amazing, and I myself have been astounded by just how easy AI platforms make art & literature. Recently I have been using chat-gpt to summarize books, develop systems and…
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A Wise Man & Friends
A Wise man is content with himself and thus therefore need no friends Epicurus to Stilbo So I celebrated my birthday recently and came to find that my way of ignoring greetings on social media has really filtered the truest of connections I have considering where I am in life.…
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Girl with Coffee
I have been meaning to get back into drawing again, which is one of the many dreams that I want to work on. If I look back, there was a time I did like to draw a lot, I would be filling notebooks with random scribbles and sketches, but somewhere…
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Lately I’ve Read… Like a Lot
When I put up my blog, I was hoping to do a weekly post on what book I’ve read that week, but I found that when I did finish one, I would be starting on the next one immediately and the ideas from the one before just went up in…
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