I want to leave my 20s the person I wanted to be at the beginning of it.
Schrödinger’s Text Message
Relationships have been changing for years now. In an age of social media, people you were once close to update you in the same way they update their close friends and family. You know intimate details about their life, even when you haven't spoken in years, and it's no wonder that we don't know who our friends are or how we want our relationships to look.
Understanding Indulgence: How To Care For Yourself
My conception of self-care is of two poles, servicing more of our emotions than frivolity or luxury by itself. The two forms of self-care are indulgence and moderation. These two are polar opposites, but in order to truly care for ourselves, we need to understand the role of indulgence and its effects on us, not blindly indulge.
The Multiverse, string theory, and how we make choices.
Alternate universes are not governed in the typical way we laypeople describe them - 'somewhere in an alternate universe', and don’t really function the way they do in art, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t take a closer look and use complicated mathematics to influence the way we live our lives.
Side Hustle or Passion Project?
I think most of us have a creative project in our bottom drawer or a business idea that we’re working on alongside our conventional job if you’re an idiot like me, you may even have both, things you couldn’t choose between and keep you very busy, but which can be tabled at a time when your ‘real’ work has to be your main focus.
What Do I Want
There is a difference between ambitions, these things that we strive for and work to make happen, and wanting something to be our own or to be different. We know the difference between need vs want, but do we need to learn the difference between want and desire?
Contemporary Female Pop Musicians As Mental Health Motivation.
Stan culture doesn’t mean turning your back on the problematic things a person’s image embodies. It means being inspired by what a person’s image opens up to you, taking what it means in the popular consciousness and seeing how it can send you in a direction that makes your life better.
Pascal’s Wager and panic attacks.
Pascal's use of decision mathematics was new to me, and truly fascinating: it made me think of predestination as a mathematical probability rather than (an impossible) certainty, which is radically liberating when applied to everyday life.
Late Romantic 