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The Sunday Wisdom

Finding wonder, nostalgia, and meaning in the ordinary

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There Is No Life That Cannot Be Successfully Prosecuted From the Right Angle

Or, we say we do not care what anyone thinks, and then check whether anyone liked the sentence in which we said it

Low Ego Is Not Thinking Less of Yourself

Or, if the cost of being wrong is small and the reward for being right is large, take more shots.

I Cannot Quite Respect a Goodness That Refuses Effectiveness

Or, I am tired of heroes who ask us to be less human in order to be good

The Kind of Happiness That Does Not Explain Itself

Or, being human is dramatic. We re after all mammals with calendars.

Some Absences Are Not Problems to Be Solved but Realities to Be Carried

Or, I do not know how to reconcile loving my life with wanting a version of reality that no longer exists

I Do Not Know How to Love the Future Without Abandoning the Present

Or, I only know that the future I am so carefully constructing keeps asking something of me in return

Maybe ‘Know Thyself’ Was Never Advice but a Warning

Or, the more we know who we are, the less room there is to become

A Case for Inefficiency

Or, why I don t want my life to be a spreadsheet

The Effort Is the Reward, but the Artefact Is the Reminder

A small paradox about creativity, memory, and why even imperfect output matters.

The Tender Ache of Remembering Nothing Special

Or, how magnificently strange and unbearably precious it is just to briefly exist, and stumble, and love, and miss

The Present Is Quiet and Shy and Easily Hurt

Or, while you re sprinting toward the future, the present gets left behind

We’re All Scared and Unsure and Desperately Hopeful

Or, love won t heal every gaping wound life carves into us

The Heartbreak of a Finite Life

Or, wherever this story takes me, I hope it will be enough

There Are Craters in All of Our Chests

Or, sometimes we need another person to reflect ourselves back to us

Loneliness When Shared Becomes Something Else

Or, solo dining and other extreme sports while travelling

Loneliness Isn’t Just Something We Endure

Or, travel emotions after a trip to Sri Lanka

Let’s Take a Stroll at the Existential Zoo

Or, Nietzsche and the three metamorphoses of the spirit

Not Everything Has to Be Timeless

Or, some things are just meant to shine for a short time

Finding My Religion

Or, thoughts after my visit to Maha Kumbh

On the Love for Walking

Or, on being present in the in-between

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