寝て起きたら洗濯が終わっている生活。クセになりそう。
On early Sunday mornings during the hot summer months in Pakistan, my father drove…
คุณเป็นคนประเภท Proactive หรือ Reactive ?
Apparently, we are the ‘Lucky Country.’
“It is useful to constantly observe, note, and…
Clay Jensen received a mail of tapes kept in shoe box-sized package after school one afternoon.
Intrigued, he played one of the tapes, and discovered they were from Hannah Baker, a girl from school who committed suicide…
(This was the story I had written for the school’s Story Writing Contest last year. Unfortunately, I was not eligible for winning due to a late submission. But sir said it was a good story, and I just realised that I had never posted it. So, here it is.)
When productivity tools distract information workers from the work itself.
I like to think I earned the cowboy hat and boots that have become sweat-drenched and mud-caked in the past year. My hands, which previously only knew the sharp aluminum edges of a MacBook, have learned many hard lessons…
I don’t know your intentionsBut I am not your usual fool;I love for realAnd this can haunt youFor a lifetime;So don’t play with my feelingsIf you don’t intent to love me;My heart breaks irreparably
「爸爸……爸爸佢唔贊成我同你結婚呀……」
I am my own foundation
Friend: The positive in life is so minimal…. The ratio of positive to negative — in…
Here it goes. Before we jump into all the details of “Who The Hell Am I”, I thought it would please some of you to know that I…
“This will change your life forever”. That’s the first thing they told me when they diagnosed my dad with stage III Pancreatic Cancer. My world shattered as I imagined my life without my dad.My heart stopped, I had this big lump in my throat like when you swallow a big pill…
Mon père et moi prenons la route, je remarque que depuis que nous sommes à Dakar, il n’a pas sorti…
I didn’t really know you that well. We went to middle school and high school together…
Who Moved My Cheese?
A group of old school friends meets to catch up. They end up discussing the unexpected, unforeseen changes in their lives and one…
The disturbance in the force is at holy fuck levels.
THE PORTUGUESE MASS
This island of Sao Miguel sprinkled with one charming little town after another is a paradise started by and formed by volcanic…
Back in early 2000s, my family lived in a small house which had a Guava tree at the backyard. My father had brought the sapling from…
First of all I’d just like to say that’s it’s been nearly a year since I last did a blog, so it may take me a little while to get back into the swing of things :)
The trip started as a 3:00 wake up and 3:30 taxi departure which mum managed to make (and most of you…
You’ve been there before, something you need from someone to get what you want.
It was a group of simple texts, but I realized something about myself in those few texts. It was all about a weekend where we…
A Writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. — Thomas Mann
A few months ago, I was jobless after being laid off from a company that I had only been working at for less than…
WHAT ARE YOU SEEING ??
The ultimate truth one must come to digest is that “the world is me and I am the world” having Realized that thoughts, beliefs and…
Bu sabah çok sevdiğim bir arkadaşımın ölüm haberiyle sarsıldım.
No esperes que el cambio llegue a ti, búscalo tú mismo usando las siguientes técnicas.
The only way to create meaning in life is to transcend the limitations of the self and its subjective preoccupations. A higher goal need not be a grand project. Even volunteering to…
這週設計課教的是隨機式系統，顧名思義就是拋棄前面上過的所有系統，徹底弄亂所有元素，做出瘋狂的版面。
什麼叫做亂？把詞組拆開亂放夠亂了嗎？不夠？那把字擺斜的夠亂了嗎？不夠？那隨意加大、減少字距行距呢？不夠？那讓文字忽大忽小呢？不夠？那把文字全部疊在一起怎麼樣？
Okay let me start by telling you what a paradox is. A paradox is a statement or situation that completely defies human logic. These paradoxes will completely twist your mind. The first paradox is;
I just spent a couple of weeks at Tassajara, a Zen Monastery doing Work Practice and wanted to reflect on my experience there. Tassajara is in the Ventana Wilderness near Carmel. It is beautifully tucked away in the mountains only accessible through a rough dirt road 90 minutes or so away from the…
Oh Ohh, I don’t know.
老細請人，通常都想新員工一埋位就識做，自動波唔使人教。所以，招聘廣告往往都要求「熟手」、「n年相關經驗」、「solid experience」之類。之但係楊千嬅演唱會請舞蹈員就一反常態，列明「小（少）量經驗演出者優先」。
There are a few things in life which seem to remain true in life despite age with consistency.
My younger cousin is 17 years, 5 months, and 22 days old.
Not Everyone Who Apologises After a Quarrel is Wrong
Not everyone who apologises to you after a quarrel was wrong. Mature and wise people know that quarrels and fights block God’s flow of positivity from reaching them. And so they apologise after a fight not because they are wrong, but because they want to be positive. So…
Unless you work in a highly progressive organisation, your ways of working will be very set in rules established decades ago as a direct leftover from the industrial revolution. Management and business school have yet to move away from the idea that an…
These thoughts came to me when I was going for a morning sprint which turned into a…
I hate to think of myself as a routine person, but I am. I know this because my day is pretty predictable. My food…
Noble souls do not advertise their suffering. They are compassionate because do not want to burden others with need to share their pain. Their self-effacing nature helps them to…
MESIN BERNYAWA
Tapak kaki berpijak hilang arah
Berderak cepat penuh langkah
One of my favorite posts published in the Post-Grad Survival Guide this week was “How To Make A Ton Of Money Without Really Trying” by Sarah Cy.
It’s so much different from the other “how to make money doing _____” articles we see and it’s been quite…
He is the boy from back then
He had a dream, a dream to pursue education to the highest levels. He grew up in an environment that raised him to believe that those who made it were “supermen”. This environment was interchangeable with poverty, lack of basic amenities, rampant crime, violent riots and massive destruction of…
I envy people who have one dream and everything about their life is driving towards it. You want to be a…
Por Victoria147
Next week we are dedicating the blog to participants of retirement plans. Participants (the…
(An indirect ever-present depiction of https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl-fy2jgwUu/)
You could try to rank for hot keywords.
Or for that new niche.
Or for the long tail.
But you’re probably never going to rank for that.
Ever.
What advice would you give your 13 year old self….
If that sounds counterintuitive, take a minute to think about it.
“Being a business man, it means sometime you have to lie a little.”
I crave collaboration. But I am an introvert.
I have a dreamthat one dayeveryone lives a life genuinely and happily with love.Not the life with corruption, greed and…
From my new favorite song, “Take It One Day at a Time.”
In it, Jennifer Chung (who I believe is Korean or Korean American?) talks about the days you have no…
I would appreciate it if you stopped calling me a fuckin’, useless bitch.
When we think about philosophy we think about abstract ideas and complicated speeches, but philosophy can be as practical as it gets…
Relationships always feel,So slippery.
While you were busy reading about habits of successful people, they were busy working on their successes.
While you were busy reading other people’s life stories, they were busy creating them.
I don’t understand how words people don’t actually understand can be perceived as insults. And was she offended at the suggestion that her sister was a psychopath? That’s so bizarre to me. It’s bizarre personally because my parents responded the same way when I started taking meds for depression some years back. It was like they were taking it as a…
In the absence of comfort,
I’ve come to know pain
I live between two worlds. I am either flying high or in the ringer.
Today was the latter.
I woke up this morning to find that a client had changed all the passwords to our projects. We were locked out of the work we were doing.
I think most of the people will agree with me that sometimes when we look for some important thing…
When someone you love dies, it is never the same and will never be.
Whether it’s a lover, a friend, or family, you’ll feel that hole emptying half of your heart. You’ll wake up everyday searching for that certain scent your grandmother always had and when…
Like the light in a painting, The things that aren’t thereDefine you, ground youMake you who you are
During my free time, I make it a point to be around with kids in my colony. It is a simple case of camaraderie — of people enjoying each other’s company.
The kids want to be admired & appreciated for all the little big things that they do. They…
Here’s something I’d like to read your thoughts about…
OK…opening up + letting go of fear allows new levels of experience and perception….THEN, how is that “opening up” + “letting go” accomplished?
Without a path, it could be all just words, or something made up. What are your thoughts
We humans try to understand. Understanding involves finding patterns and the ability to reproduce the same. Understanding necessitates reducing the existence into simple forms like formulas,words. Determinism comes into picture when we are…
In Brazil we recently had a fuel crisis due to a truckers’ strike. People were on the line for seven hours just to fill…
have you ever felt so left behind?Like no one else is beside you or try to hold you up or simply know that you are in your lowest chasm?
I’ve been there.
Yep! Flashy things attract sharks
❣️Love, what is love? Can we really give a definition? There is different kind of love and there is different way of loving.
We spend a lot of time waiting. In lines, for the Uber, at the train platform, the doctors office, elevators. I don’t know about you, but until recently, my waits consisted of me with my headphones in, eyes glued to my phone, aimlessly scrolling through twitter, closing twitter…
If something breaks once, it is broken forever.
A short poem :D
Sometimes, I wish things could have beendifferentBut would they be ?
I, Dalton Lewis, worry about my stories being stolen. Most writers fear intellectual property theft. They sue each other over trifles. I don’t want to reduce myself to the level of someone who has lawsuits flying. I want to live with integrity, above all that nonsense.
This article was first written for the Talkspace Blog.
“Are you afraid of success?” My therapist asked me, intently.
I let out a put-out sigh, and my defense immediately went up. “How dare she ask me that?”…
Writing used to be my serene place. I wrote down my feelings, thoughts and aspirations. It was always between me, my pen and my diary.
Then I became close to people, friends, boyfriends and I felt like I didn’t need to write after all I could talk to them.
This is officially my 3rd installment of Favorited Albums. A series where I essentially describe why I champion certain albums of a genre as the creme of the crop.
I used to think I was a big deal
People praised me about my achievements
They made me feel like a top shot
I won’t say this got to my head
I’ve chosen a whimsical title to tell you something very important about myself.
Trust us, not for our obedience to your commands, but for our promise on delivering troubles to you, at your doorstep and in your mental palaces.
They forgive you, by dying. Knowing those who replace them, know why they died and know what to do, to uncover the bully’s insecurities.
________
Read, it said,
So I read.
bipolar,
they said.
who are they?
In my head
This sounds so elitist. This implies that she isn’t good enough as she stands.
A person who is working at changing financial situation, and contributing to her local community. Her words support your premise, thoughtfully contributing and giving back to her community — although not an international destination — and you come…
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Every now and then, on top of the reruns of the most embarrassing moments of your life, a memory of an opportunity squandered smears the back of your eyelids with regret.
I ordered two pairs of shorts from a company called Woodies.
Maybe..
If you ask me today.. I don't know where life is headed..
It feels the right direction.. yet so wrong..
Knowing that tomorrow is completely unknown...not even a glimpse can be seen..
I’ve got a dilemma. And writing this down today seems like something I need to do. I want to get this…
What would it be like when four women happen to meet in a hospital lab who only share one thing — their gender!
But wait there’s more!
Varthamaankam is a play of these women who are refugees, dalits, cleaners, teachers, housewives and ofcourse the…
Thankful
When the walls seem to be closing in, there is always someone who can listen.
True. It is immensely difficult for many to correct themselves in front of others. That level of deep self reflection is rare indeed. It comes through dismounting your own perspectives, even briefly, and allowing the insight of others’ perspectives to filter through your blinders. We should be adept at walking in someone else’s shoes to gain a feel…
Sometimes I try to beOther times,I just am.Trying to beTakesSoMuchEffort;It feels compulsorylike votingand Christmastime.
My last 7 years of school spent in one of the most wanted major in my country in the last decade. One day I felt so proud to…
Thanks for posting, Maarten van Doorn. I’m in engineering education, and I teach both This Is Water and Thomas Nagel (e.g., moral luck).
I wrote a new piece about it this morning.
It’s too strange to see people being sad, drown in sorrow just because they’re thinking on a bad incident that they really don’t wanna think about..... 😣
Thursday’s Thoughts: Reflection on Imperfection
I missed last week’s Thursday’s Thoughts. When I realized my gaff, at first, I felt a twinge of failure.
I had a reason. Sort of. I was at a writers’ retreat in Waynesville, North Carolina. I was writing and forgetting about time. By the time I thought…
Leave empty.
Most of us came into this world alone. And we’ll leave alone. For even those who arrived with one or more passengers, are likely to depart alone. Hence it is fortunate, a privilege, to meet a few beings who make your stay worthwhile.
I feel overwhelmed
I’m nervous
I’m sad
Everything started a week ago when I went out with my friends and I met a new girl. No one really knew her but she was a friend of a friend. I don’t know about you, but after I meet someone I always ask myself what do I think about that…
We’re all set to sail!
The sea is so calm,The wind is gentle, andMy girl is…
Only in the eyes of a true believer,
Can one ever be saved.
I’m on my way to axe and knife throwing class (that’s right, I’m expanding. Look out, zombies!) and I’m feeling really good.
Pedal trgtho the metal in my 1994 Jeep Wrangler down the US Highway towards Washington DC Union station. I was…
I am used to haters. I am used to hate and gossip and people discussing about my doings at parties and my soft spot for rosé wine and drinking games. And actually I kinda like it. People gossip about people that matter. Let’s be…
Yes, issues as in problems. It’s interesting. When you open up about the problems in your life. You are made to feel…
Wow 👏so interesting.
Be grateful for everything you have
I was in Boston for a business trip and flew in two days early to meet my wife for a couple of…
Do you watch a certain show or movie, when you’re feeling low?
Once when I was discussing a paper topic with Frank Clooney, I told him I wanted to critique some…
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HOPE
Lucky you to remember
“ the most beautiful hope”
Written by: Tatyana Wilson, Age:15, Neighborhood: Englewood
When andromeda shall merge with our universeWhen stars shall die and red dwarf shall burstWhen skies shall fall crushing everything…
Spent
Gratitude should be hard today. And it is, but I made a commitment to a daily practice and that means doing it not only when it is hard, but especially when it is.
That said, as far as commentary goes, I cannot muster any words beyond what I already choked…
“Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster…
Shannon, your journey almost exactly parallels my own. The ages and everything. And, of course, my own complicated relationship with my mother at the source of it all. (She was overweight her whole life also.) I always felt so alone and “abnormal,” but there are some things that are maybe universal. Unfortunate for those things to be painful…
Just wrote something similar for a Crunchbase article about the startups that think “We can do X,Y,Z when we have funding” lose. Love this post as always John.
Hi! This is an anonymous account from a girl that lives in London and enjoys to write.
I’ve always loved writing, even when I was in primary school. I didn’t realise how much I loved it until secondary school. I realised I wanted to become a writer. I would write all of the time and…
Choose your child.
I have always liked the idea, that before children are born, they are somewhere in heaven and choose us to be their parents. «Oh, look it seems like I could help them with some giggles, they seem so serious» or « wow, this woman is so amazing and doesn`t even know that, basing all her identity on worthless…
“Jesus. What a mess.”
“Yeah. He put up a bit of a fight.”
“Uh, yeah. Are you okay? You’re bleeding…”
“What? Oh, yeah. Nah, I’m good. It’s fine.”
Brilliant! One of the best posts I”ve read in a long time.
You have so much untapped literary and creative talent Mia.
In purchase or prospect, we are in search of inspiration; a renewed vigour. Something to reignite the passion that may be slipping however diminutive.
Perhaps as we age, we feel the same. We are less active both physically and intellectually (some will definitely argue this and that’s valid). In our youth we had no…
What’s a love?
