Mark Twain once said something about there being two days that are important in your life. The day you're born, and the day you find out why. I think there's a third day that matters as much as the other two. The day you realise that your why only matters to you, and no one [...]
If I were to write without restraint, would you see my soul or judge my sanity? Sanity is elusive when it competes with the heart. The heart is not satiated by the intellect, and the intellect cannot reason with the heart. They both swim in their own orbits. Like the sun and the moon, each [...]
It's no secret that I have contentious views about the human psyche and what makes us behave the way that we do. That there are tons of differing opinions on the subject is also obviously clear, probably the majority of which either conflicts with, or directly contradicts my views. Many of those contradictory views are [...]
It's not always a bad thing to be taken for granted. It really all depends on who is taking you for granted, doesn't it? When we incline towards selflessness, being taken for granted is comforting. It means that those around us find us to be dependable for what it is that they need from us. [...]
I sometimes watch the wayward behaviour of some while observing the contempt of others that are watching it play out, and wonder who between the two are less aware of their actions or motivations to behave that way. The ones among us that are of a softer nature will look on and seek to understand why someone [...]
In a self indulgent world, distortions of reality threaten to taint the essentials that hold our sanity together. The essentials are so much more difficult to recognise these days. This binary lifestyle that we've perpetuated for so long now insists that if we take care of ourselves, it must be to the exclusion of taking [...]
