It’s incredibly difficult to be kind but trust me when I say you can start cultivating it today. — Were you, like me, thinking it was natural for humans to be kind? Let me break it to you: it’s exactly the opposite. Human beings are needy, high-maintenance, and overt or covertly power-hungry creatures in their most natural state. Our history is a gore account of power shifts and warfare…

Luckily the 6000 kg animal had a distraction — A short internship in my junior year took me to Lesotho, a country surrounded along the entire border by South Africa. After the internship I hopped across the border to South Africa to take a trip up to the Kruger National Park — one of Africa’s largest game reserves. On…

And keep more of them around — I am sure you can go back to that time in your memory when you were friends with a secure person — a person well-situated in his place on the earth, in her workplace, at home, and in her relationships. …

Massaging a function to a more manageable form — Did someone just wave their hand in class and say “Just apply the Taylor series and you will get it” pointing at a very simplified and totally unrecognizable function? It immediately switches on the confusing jumble of letters and numbers trying to remember what the Taylor series expansion looked like. …

Is your mental health a consequence of your surroundings? — Spiritual conflict can trigger cognitive dissonances and tendencies of bipolarity. Every time I see the conservatism surrounding me, manifesting through misogyny, controlling behavior, poor food habits, mockery towards the physically or mentally specially-abled, and normalizing ideas of racism (or equivalent, such as dehumanizing people of other religions), I immediately go…

And make room for authentic connections — Gold is pretty for an accessory; it would be much less than ideal however to be coated all over with it. Love bombing is a technique used by manipulators, narcissists, and abusive people to quickly grab a top position in your priority list and make you catch feelings. …

Wasting time is as destructive a behavior as throwing away money — Sloth is a trap. Lying down on your bed for hours on the weekends only to brag about how your day starts at 2 p.m. is tremendously unfair. I understand if you wrote 200 pages of codes or built the chassis of a car then went on a half-day hike…

How did they do it? Can you do the same? — I remember being a non-member reader on this platform 4 years ago with 2 stories on my profile. I used to write my adventures, opinions, and experiences on WordPress and Facebook at that time. I found this fresh, clean, and clear-white blogging website with large headlines and crisp text when…

who went through an orifice by the river and found himself in unexpected nostalgia — With a small torch in his hand, a pair of sneakers on his feet, a backpack with a chocolate bar, and a bottle half full of water on his back, he is walking on the small puddle of water as he desperately looks for more light. This is the third…