Topic

Living

A collection of 53 issues

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

Morality and Ethics : Designed for Survival, Not Truth

Humans, as complex beings driven by both instinct and reason, face a central dilemma : the pursuit of survival versus the pursuit of truth. While we pride ourselves on being rational creatures, evolution suggests that survival, not truth, has been the guiding force behind our development. Our moral and ethical frameworks,

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

The Nature of “Negative Capability”

Somewhere in the rolling fog of history, amid the ethereal musings of a poet, lies a concept that has managed to evade the hard grasps of certainty and logic : negative capability. John Keats — who, in his letter to his brothers, named this elusive state — did not anticipate the term would

Anti-Knowledge : A Journey Through the Paradoxes of Knowing

In a world that celebrates knowledge as the ultimate currency, I find myself drawn instead to its inverse : anti-knowledge, the space of what is not known, and perhaps, what cannot be known. Not an empty void, anti-knowledge is instead the paradoxical space where knowing folds back on itself, revealing the

The Asymmetry of Information and Wisdom

The more I think about it, the more I come back to this question : in a world where information flows ceaselessly, why does wisdom feel ever more elusive? It’s not that we lack data or insights. Far from it. Our age is inundated with knowledge, steeped in facts and

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

The Beauty of Trust : The Unseen Fabric of Humanity, Society, and the Cosmos

There’s a moment in everyone’s life when trust breaks, shattering something within us so deep that it’s hard to breathe. The rawness of betrayal, the suffocating feeling of being let down — it stings. Yet, even in this heart-wrenching space, trust somehow clings to the edges of our