Jan 10Why You Shouldn’t Make Your Role Models Your “Idols”This is not a new topic. A lot has been said about it and the general consensus is to never put people on a pedestal, because they’re mere humans with flaws. A lot has also been said about how choosing not to be yourself makes you a second rate imitation…3 min read3 min read
Jul 8, 2020Do you want to be alive, or do you want to live?Something to ponder over some tea — You don’t want life, not really. What you want are the things you’ve been taught are good, i.e. being rich, being pretty, being respected, being morally good, being perpetually happy and so on. However, you don’t want life, because while all the aforementioned things can be found in life, they…Life6 min readLife6 min read
Jul 6, 2020Sucking is an act of creativityThat’s today’s tea — “This feeling of wrongness is the one they have to learn as being correct” Keith Johnstone uttered this statement in his book, ‘Impro.’ The book is his form of commentary on his experiences in improvisational theater (what he’s famous for pioneering), and in this context he was talking about trying…Creativity4 min readCreativity4 min read
Jul 4, 2020Everybody seeks permission.That’s the tea. — All our struggles; all the hustle for money; all the self-helping we do, stems from the longing to finally be okay with what we are. Same with all the approval-seeking that defines most of us. It’s all to give ourselves the permission to be comfortable with what we are and…Self Acceptance5 min readSelf Acceptance5 min read
Mar 18, 2020You May Just be GodA Take on Self Acceptance — I’m on that self-acceptance vibe again. It’s a bastardized word, but it’s the only term that describes a manner of being that, I believe, will enable less neurotic living. I’m thoroughly convinced that the term’s bad rap is down to most of us not properly understanding what a self is…Religion And Spirituality7 min readReligion And Spirituality7 min read
Mar 4, 2020You’ll Get Over It, Not Completely, But You Will.I feel a tinge of sadness as I type these words because for some reason, there is a disconnect between the parts of me that thinks these things and the part of me that acts. In short, I don’t follow my own advice. But we move nonetheless, because wetin man…Life3 min readLife3 min read
Nov 20, 2019Random Muse on Consciousness using Eastern Philosophical Frameworks.I was thinking about some things that came to mind from Kapil Gupta’s writings; about how there’s no self, there’s only processes, for example, there’s no person seeing, there’s only the process of sight, there’s no person hearing, there’s only the process of hearing, and how in one of his…Consciousness3 min readConsciousness3 min read
Sep 18, 2019Do Consequences Really Matter?More importantly, does anything really matter? That was the title I initially had in mind for this article. But then, the word ‘consequence’ gives a lot of people pause, so I decided to go for it instead. So, do consequences matter? I mean, they’re real and all, but does it…Life3 min readLife3 min read
Sep 9, 2019Why I think the Universe is perfectAnd That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing. — I wrote a post on this subject a while ago, but waxed poetic throughout the entire thing, so I’m very sure I didn’t communicate anything concrete to anyone. So that knowledge, coupled with the fact that the concept of universal perfection is on replay in my head, is the reason…Science7 min readScience7 min read
Sep 4, 2019Are You Just An Idea?It might be the result of watching too much TV or reading too much fantasy, but I’ve always been a firm believer in the existence of a supra-normal aspect of reality. You’ll never hear me say ghosts exist or whatnot, but you won’t get a denial from me either. I…Philosophy5 min readPhilosophy5 min read
