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llustration of evolving purpose across decades: twenties of exploration, thirties of stability, forties of legacy creation, showing dynamic life meaning-making.

Sep 10, 2025 2 min read

Purpose Evolution: How Life Meaning Changes Across Decades

"Purpose evolves with age: exploration in twenties, stability in thirties, legacy in forties. Life’s meaning is a dynamic process, created…

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 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…

A conceptual digital artwork showing a young adult at a crossroads, surrounded by floating symbols of different life roles, with their body blending into flowing colors to symbolize fluid identity and self-reinvention.

Sep 10, 2025 1 min read

The Fluid Identity Trap: Why “What Do You Want to Be?” Is the Wrong Question

"Identity isn’t a final destination—it’s an evolving process. At 25, the realization dawns: career labels and fixed roles are illusions.…

Hands over a notebook as soft Bengali-like strokes rise like breath.

Sep 9, 2025 2 min read

The Day You Realized You Think in Your Mother Tongue

In English classes and global work, my deepest thoughts return to Bengali—the rhythm learned from my mother. Prayer, love, anger,…

A burned fairy-tale turning into a mirror where a person stands alone, ready for self-rescue.

Sep 9, 2025 1 min read

when fairy tales die: self-rescue and adult truth

At nine, a torn cape ended belief in scripted destiny. Adulthood learns there is no protagonist privilege, only choices and…

Everyday workers depicted as masters in an “invisible university.

Sep 9, 2025 2 min read

Learning from Everyday People: The Invisible University

We walk past everyday gurus—drivers, vendors, housemaids, guards—each a living department in an invisible university. Experience holds maps, flavors, and…

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