The other day I sent a friend a screenshot of a Tinder convo. This friend responded saying they didn’t think it was appropriate for me to send something that personal to them, and that it wasn’t something they wanted to see. Because I’m over-sensitive and at times irrational, I freaked […]
Psychology
Love makes us vulnerable
A conversation with a friend inspired this (hehe; she knows who she is). When we love someone, whether they’re our friend, partner, family member; we’re giving a piece of ourselves to them emotionally. We’re putting ourselves in a place of vulnerability. We’re opening our soul up to them which gives […]
Love songs are lame
This post is going to explain my distaste for love songs via two reasons: a) from a musical standpoint it’s boring and repetitive to have so many songs about the same thing, and b) love songs only ever focus on romantic love, perpetuating it as the ‘best kind’ of love […]
How do you identify?
Identity. Humans are social, tribalist creatures, and evolution has made it so we find company within each other in order to survive. United we stand, divided we fall. Identity and belonging are things I have always struggled with. Naturally, we are shaped by our experiences. My early experiences with other […]
Why do people do drugs?
Contains drug-related images. I believe there are two main reasons. One: to have fun and socialise with friends. Two: out of depression and nihilistic hopelessness and a need to escape. In their simplest forms, drug use can boil down to these two extremes; happiness vs misery. Needless to say, there’s […]
The Seven Deadly Sins
I find the 7 deadly sins interesting in terms of looking at the ‘extremes’ of human behaviour. As with everything, we need to maintain balance. We all have these ‘sins’, but we can keep them right-sized to the point where they stay healthy and don’t take over us. Here is […]