Let's kick off with the latest advance in happiness: Happiness = Reality - Expectations If you want to be happy, stop expecting things to turn out the way you want them. Sounds good. Once the world starts following the arithmetic, we can all live happily ever after. For a while, every time I put out … Continue reading The hitchhiker’s guide to happiness
Reading books are amongst the few things technology hasn't been able to wipe out. Back in the days, reading was a solace from loneliness - an unencumbered pleasure - the unforced habit. Although there's the likes of people like Kafka who called bullshit on all that, and said books are meant to hit you like a catastrophe … Continue reading Why we still read books
Remember the time Alia Bhat got the name of the President wrong and the world went bonkers over how stupid she was and decided to crap all over her? Of course, it’s hard not to thank her because if not for her, over half of us may have never known who the actual President was. … Continue reading The only Artificial Intelligence that could actually destroy us all
Welcome back. Yet another day of purposeless posing. Tomorrow, you'll take the same route to hell. You'll see plastic faces buried inside recycled papers. White cups of green hot piss have replaced coffee. They want to live healthier, longer -- these delicate, dead-eyed souls. Have you seen them in an elevator? Packed like goats. A pathetic sight to … Continue reading Why did you wake up today
Look around you. Plastic people. Their faces growing into the masks they wear. Living recycled lives. In sedentary ruin. No one knows what they're doing. Everyone's pretending to be okay. Blind-folded chase. Faking happiness. Fighting suffering. Flashing words. Loving themselves. Telling jokes. Contorting smiles. Shedding tears. Making a hobby out of watching someone suffer. A steaming pile … Continue reading The meaning of it all
The best answer I know to that question comes from a ten-year-old: "I want to be everything." We can resonate with that. Being everything sounds so rad. It's also a recurrent theme in the now choice-y world. Having spent some time in that world, I am coming to a slow and painful realization: You can … Continue reading What do you want to be when you grow up?
Never settle. Keep improving. Make progress. Get better. Evolve. Grow. Become. All of which begs the question, “What Happened?” When did being a bit of a wacko stop being normal? I have a vague but recurring feeling that something is wrong with me, all the time. In the beginning, it was great. It helped me … Continue reading Your life sucks. Here’s why
We've been told this a lot: Perfection is an illusion. It’s something you should never aspire for. Let go of the idea of perfection and embrace your ugliness. It's why we've lately come to take serene comfort in imperfection. As a kid, I had a skimpy fluorescent t-shirt with the following words on it: “Nobody … Continue reading How to become perfection
Five words pulled philosopher Rene Descartes out of a possible existential crisis. "I think therefore I am." What pulled him out pushes me. I think way too much. Therefore, Am I? While we are at it, what is “i”? Is it the “I” in Identity that defines my life and beliefs or is it the “i” … Continue reading Insanity is Personal. This is mine:
We all have a vague feeling that the world's messed up. This feeling trickles into the everyday life of jobs, schools, families, and social communities. And each of these places has something called a status quo. Status quo is the existing state of the place. Your workplace calls the status quo culture; your schools called it … Continue reading The round peg in a square hole in a round peg
