I've always felt that my best pieces of writing were written in times of melancholy, sadness, or anger -- generally negative feelings you'd want to avoid. During the better times, those good but not great times, writing doesn't come quite as readily. Perhaps it's because life keeps you satiated with itself, and writing just isn't... Continue Reading →
The New
When I get or experience something new, I always try to make it feel Like it's not as soon as possible, So that it'd be like I'd always had or experienced it; Like it'd never been away. I guess it's because A "new something" is fleeting While a "something" lasts a little longer. The transcience... Continue Reading →
An Eternal State of Anticipation
I'm currently home-alone in the fiancee's home, waiting for her twice-a-month four-hour sentence at work to end. I'm also currently in two minds about whether the time I have alone is time to be savoured or time to be passed. Savoured because I'm alone, and can pretty much do what I'd like to do. Passed,... Continue Reading →
Genesis 1:3 – Let there be light
My brother was on his way to take a shower when I stopped him and said, "you know, at first it was just regular; and then there was light." The expression on his face told me I was onto a winner.
The Man Who Killed His Daughter
I was read this passage (again, too good not to share) in the book Freedom Evolves, by Daniel Dennett, talking about how the absent mindedness of a father led to the death of his daughter. I had once thought quite a bit about the issue discussed here, and always came to the sort of thinking... Continue Reading →
A Man (Cat) of Few Words
I'm writing this at 6.30 in the morning -- I didn't wake up on my own accord, but was woken by my cat's quack (if you know my cat, you'll know that he's like a feline Tom Waits, and always sounds like he has had a little too much to drink). My cat is a... Continue Reading →
Be the Best You Can Be!
I was recently reading a personal development blog when I recalled the days not too long ago that I, too, had wanted to start my own personal development blog. Back then, I had wanted to be something along the lines of a "life coach" to people; I'd envisioned that I’d write self-improvement articles, give prep... Continue Reading →
On Being Good
I just read a parable on being good in a Buddhist text (given to me by my wonderful fiancée, called The Teaching of Buddha) that I thought too good not to share: Once there was a rich widow who had a reputation for kindness, modesty and courtesy. She had a housemaid who was wise and... Continue Reading →
Taking stock of life
I've been facing a sort of existential crisis recently, and I think it started with my reading of Between the Monster and the Saint by Richard Holloway, which talked about the humanistic movement and what it meant to be human (not much, it seems). I enjoyed the book thoroughly, reading it any time and every... Continue Reading →
Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps
Not too sure what' s been keeping me from updating more often. Perhaps a little due to work pressures; perhaps a little due to sloth; perhaps a little due to whatever makes people not do what they wish they did. Life's been crazy of late. Crazy good somewhat; crazy bad somewhat. Not too sure what... Continue Reading →
Donn, fragments 