Topic

Life

A collection of 49 issues

Value Creation is Not Symmetric : Life, Relationships, and Organizations

Humans are inherently driven to seek value, create meaning, and leave a lasting impact. This urge to create value is deeply embedded in our psychology, touching on our need for survival, social connection, identity, purpose, and legacy. Value creation — the process of generating meaningful outcomes, benefits, or impact — is often

Why Realistic Pessimism is a Gift in a Delusional World of Optimism?

It’s strange to live in a world where optimism is marketed as the only viable option for a meaningful life. “Stay positive!” they say, wielding optimism as a panacea for all things bleak. But does relentless optimism make us any less exposed to life’s absurdities? If anything, optimism

Skyline of Solitude : The Forgotten Faces in the Rise of Modernity

In the city, tall structures crowd the skyline, vying for supremacy in height, gloss, and grandeur. These buildings represent our collective obsession with progress, each new floor a testament to ambition, each glass pane a symbol of perceived advancement. Yet as I look at these towering giants, an unsettling realization

Beyond the Clock : When Time and Self Become One

The clock ticks forward, dragging each moment into the next as though time is an endless scroll unrolled by the invisible hand of reality. Yet, if I pause and ask myself, “What is this thing I call time?” the answer slips through my grasp like water through a clenched fist.

The Strange Look of Grief and Recognition

Grief is strange, almost ineffable. I think of it as a mask that distorts, a palpable yet ephemeral presence — a look on a face that is at once alien and achingly familiar. I’ve seen it reflected back at me in mirrors, in the eyes of friends, in strangers on

The Hollowing

In the fading hours of twilight, where shadows stretch their thin fingers across landscapes that have long lost their meaning, he observes a world now entrenched in the dull hum of transaction. Once, there was depth. The waters of life felt bottomless, rich with the sediment of genuine connection, of

Between the Dream and the Deed : A Symphony of Infinite Becoming

I stand at a crossroads — no map, no compass, just the faintest echoes of the footsteps I’ve taken thus far. Each path offers its own torment: on one side, the allure of the dream, on the other, the burden of action. Both repulse me, in their own way. Dreaming

On the Nature of Desire and Love : Can Love Truly Be Experienced?

In the dim-lit chambers of human consciousness, desire weaves a delicate and relentless thread. It whispers softly, sometimes erupting into a tempest, pulling at the edges of our reality with a simple question : what do we want? It is an invisible force that animates the mundane and the profound. Like

Between Stars and Dust : Embracing the Banal and the Infinite

Imperious, inscrutable, and utterly banal — life persists as if indifferent to the meanings we attempt to assign it. For as long as I’ve wandered through its corridors, I have felt both its infinite majesty and its crushing monotony. At times, the air tastes of grandeur, of some ethereal secret

Distraction : Humanity’s Eternal Quest to Escape the Abyss

Distraction as the Heartbeat of Human Life Humanity has always been, and perhaps will always be, engaged in some form of distraction. From the dawn of civilization to our hyper-connected digital age, we have filled our lives with activities, pursuits, and technologies designed to divert our attention. But why? What