What exactly is the thing that’s been hindering me from living my life to the fullest? No matter what I pursue, there still seems to be a gap between me and the so-called reality, and the feeling of lack still persists even after the glorious moment of satisfaction. My life is nothing but an artifact […]
As I engage with myself, with complete honesty and brutality, there is an aspect of me who is always rushing to be loved, a hard-to-admit phenomenon that is grounded not on unconditionality, but a fragmented expectation that my lack will one day be fulfilled. Then, I start to ask myself, is that true love? It
I’m not going to lay down some grand logical arguments to prove this wrong, but it seems to me that it has always been guarded by falsities rather than truth. How so, the intention of adhering to a certain pattern is nonetheless a modification of the context, a certain word change that proves to be
Why do we suffer the way we do? What is the meaning of life? And why does life, at times, burden us so much with nonsense, to the point where the thought of giving it up sometimes seems to be the last and desperate resort? I have been pondering these questions for quite a long
It is often unusual that something hidden inside me wants to break out of its prison of impotence constituted by self-ignorance and the overall disappointment on humanity as a whole. I have slowly come to realize that we are all too self-absorbed; our human nature prompts us to shine, and yet we shine in the
Since God-Knows when, I have many things to say, and yet do not know where to begin. Though miserable to admit, we all live in a same story, the story has endowed us with strength to combat the excruciating uncertainty that constantly gnaws at the back of our mind, and in return we gave away
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We usually tend to make ourselves as a particular means to an end, rather an end in itself. How so? In retrospect, everything we have done in the name of improving ourselves has often resorted to a trick to make ourselves known to God, to others, and particularly to “ourselves”. In a personal context, we
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If you are alone, please be utterly alone. Don’t make it as a cover-up to hide that you hate being alone. More often than not, the fact that no one is here for us makes us think that we do not need other people to fulfill us, but that is not the case, people will
We view social media as tools to reach and communicate with people, and through them, we hope that we can become more emotionally connected with others than before. However, a study has contradictorily shown that more time spent on social media was actually associated with more loneliness (Bonsaksen et al., 2023). According to Bekhet et
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I came across with this phrase online, it is something like this… “I must work hard, because the things I want are expensive” I have come to realize that no matter what we do, be it striving for social status/fame, or even working hard to obtain the so-called first barrel of gold, our end goal
