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Impermanence
We learn lessons young, thinking we understand them, only to discover we knew nothing at all. Sometimes, lessons get reinforced as life goes on. One of those for me was this concept of impermanence. People come and go as life goes on. Growing up in a small town in Vermont, you stuck with the same — read more
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Pivot
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” Henry David Thoreau When we think about value, we’ve been trained to measure it in dollars. This is partly true given this is how society assigns a number value as a means of exchange for your contributions. But I think this is — read more
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All in
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S. Elliot We are taught to yearn for that end goal correlated with a sense of comfort. Whether it be that cabin in the woods, that house in the suburbs, or getting that job signifying you’ve made it — read more
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Many interests
It’s been several years since I began this blog, and much has changed since. When I first wrote on this blog, my aspirations were to become a professional football (soccer) athlete and I pursued that dream until it no longer made sense. Most of my posts then focused on new feelings and realizations I had — read more
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Stoicism
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” — Marcus Aurelius One of the greatest philosophers of all time, Marcus Aurelius was a stoic. I had a conversation recently with a friend regarding the role stoicism plays — read more
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Love?
There are different kinds of love. We can love things, we can love people, and we can love ideas. But why and what drives this is what some philosophers like Plato and Aristotle spent much of their time thinking about. Plato argues that love is a solution to many people’s problems. Aristotle believes that before — read more
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Confidence
Confidence is such a funny word. It encapsulates so much. It is having the ultimate trust in yourself. You act like you know exactly what you are doing. When you have true confidence, you are set for life. It is often associated with qualities such as decisiveness and intelligence. Having too much confidence in the — read more
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Selfawareness is a blessing and a curse
The ultimate goal in life is to feel like you are flying. Feel utter weightlessness. When you feel like nothing is weighing you down and like you don’t need to do anything to better yourself, then you have reached success because you are happy. But you can’t know that you’re happy, or else you will — read more
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What you do, matters.
When people think of philosophy, many people think of the thought that, “The universe is so big that anything I say or do doesn’t matter in the span of the universe.” Now the average person might say that you are overthinking it when in reality you are drawing the wrong conclusion to a very true — read more
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The time for reconciliation is over’: South Africa votes to confiscate white-owned land — read more