I have long held a belief in the principles that the things you think and speak become your reality. When I was younger, I remember forming a haiku on my wall:

Dreams become premunition
My thoughts are the source
Reality is in…

Why is it that we default to hiding our weaknesses, insecurities or pains from others? Our species is not like any other. We do not rely on survival of the fittest, nor is weakness even treated as a social taboo. Yet for some reason we often default to hiding our pain…

What is the modern American dream? Is it still the house in the burbs with a white picket fence, a…