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Schadenfreude isn’t good for the soul
My youtube feed is full of drama videos, essays, and stand up skits of people who took the time and effort to write scripts that is directed towards attacking certain people for different reasons. May it be political stances, ideologies, religion or social issues, or just because some guy made…
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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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