Honesty pays off
Is it okay to manipulate people ? Of course not, it’s evil and selfish… but did you know we manipulate each other all the time ? Let’s consider the following : You have an eager desire to understand how the world works, so you spend hours reading books, having debates, thinking, meditating… I doubt you…
You’re smart, but society convinces you you’re stupid. You’re honest, but society laughs at you when you act like it. You wanna do good in the world, but society questions your real intentions. If you’re a sane honest person, trying to make the world a little less harder for people, you’ll face real struggle with…
I miss the high school days and its music. Music used to have a big impact on me, I would play some Buckethead and within seconds disconnect completely from this world. The music draws a world for me to discover, like someone describing a view. It used to impact me more than words. The more…
You know where you’re sitting by yourself in your room and you have that uncomfortable feeling in your gut. That fear about… something. You start thinking about your life, your future, what you should do to improve yourself, the choices you made in the past, how your life would be different if you didn’t do…
> First time going to the coast > By myself > No one around > Chilly weather > Majestic landscape > Clouds painted by the orange fading sun into the horizon > OMG > The day after it forgot about it ~ > The clock says 9am > Sunday > Bright sunlight > Think of…
Free will : The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion. As a kid, the first 10 years of your life you are being taught how to think and behave. Taught is a cute word. You are being programmed. Since your brain is empty…
Getting out of your shell Finding your purpose in life is the ultimate goal and the most important thing you can ever do. For me, I learned that you can achieve anything you want in life. All you need is to do is Learn Apply Repeat And so I don’t spend so much time on…
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.” ― Kurt Vonnegut You’re lost. You can’t make sense of anything anymore. “Why am I doing this job ? How long will I…
I wanna be a mathematician, dive into the perfect world of numbers. I wanna be a physician to understand the building blocks of our universe and the rules that govern them. I wanna be a biologist, ponder on how life sprouts out of nothingness. I wanna be a philosopher, spend endless hours questioning questions and…