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A symbolic image of rebirth: a Phoenix butterfly emerges from the ashes of a burnt photograph and flies toward a bright sunrise over a new landscape.

Sep 12, 2025 2 min read

Endings as Beginnings: The Rebirth After Loss

Signing divorce papers felt like life's end. But that ending birthed authentic self-discovery. This essay explores how endings—in relationships, careers,…

A somber future view of meat consumption: a museum exhibit critiquing historical industrial farming.

Sep 12, 2025 2 min read

Future View of Meat Consumption: A Historical Crime?

Future generations will view our industrial meat consumption as a barbaric moral failure, akin to historical atrocities like slavery. This…

A young person sits at a desk in a vast library, looking at a blank book while surrounded by volumes titled 'Social Cues' and 'Career Navigation.' Faint streams of data flow around other people in the background, symbolizing unspoken knowledge.

Sep 12, 2025 2 min read

The Missing Manual of Life | On Feeling Behind

Everyone else seems fluent in existence's unwritten language, while I stumble through conversations with broken syntax. This is a reflection…

Illustration of consciousness persisting after death without memory, showing raw awareness and phenomenology independent of biographical identity.

Sep 10, 2025 2 min read

Consciousness Without Memory: Pure Awarenes

"Imagine consciousness after death with memory erased: raw awareness persists, free from identity, narrative, and biographical baggage, experiencing each moment…

Illustration of distant soulmates connected across continents, highlighting the concept of global soulmate probability and incomplete emotional resonance.

Sep 10, 2025 1 min read

Distant Soulmates: Probability, Connection, and the Universe’s Separation

"Distant soulmates may exist across continents, partially completing our emotional puzzle. Probability, culture, and distance shape connections we may never…

Illustration showing a coffee shop customer as protagonist in his own story but an extra in others’ lives, highlighting existential perspective and background character significance.

Sep 10, 2025 1 min read

Background Character Perspective: Life Through the Eyes of an Extra

"We are protagonists of our own stories yet extras in others’. Recognizing the background character perspective reveals unseen complexity and…

Illustration of parallel selves and alternate realities in dreams, exploring the concept of multiverse consciousness and unlived lives.

Sep 10, 2025 1 min read

Parallel Selves: Dreams as Windows Into Alternate Realities

In dreams I’m rocket scientist on different continents, surgeon in alternate genders, artist in completely other lives. Quantum mechanics’ many-worlds…

Illustration of plant consciousness showing trees sending electrical and chemical signals, highlighting the concept of silent suffering in plants

Sep 10, 2025 1 min read

Plant Consciousness: Rethinking Silent Suffering in Nature

"Plants communicate stress through chemical and electrical signals, challenging our assumptions about consciousness and ethical responsibility toward silent life."

"Illustration of a parent sitting awake at night, showing parenting anxiety and worry about child’s safety

Sep 10, 2025 1 min read

Parental Worry Explained: Why Love Feels Like Anxiety

Parents don’t worry out of fear, but because life is unpredictable. Parenting anxiety is love expressed through care, vigilance, and…

Conceptual illustration of a man posting 'Good morning' on Facebook, reflecting on becoming like his father, with generational social media habits symbolized by food photos, quotes, and political posts.

Sep 10, 2025 1 min read

Digital Aging: How Posting “Good Morning” on Facebook Made Me My Father

After posting “Good morning” on Facebook, I realized I’d become my father. The boy who once cringed at parents’ social…

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