Life is strange. One day you’re dealing with a chronic illness and the next you’re navigating one of the biggest transitions of your life. I spent all of my energy over the last few years trying to hold things together, but sometimes things fall apart anyway. I stayed in a loveless marriage for too long. …
Picture, if you will, a year shaped by relentless determination, a quiet war waged against an invisible adversary. This is not a tale of triumph but one of persistence—a dogged refusal to let the weight of Long COVID crush the fragile hopes that buoy the human spirit. Long COVID Long COVID is the specter that …
I’ve been doing a year in review publicly for four years now. If you haven’t read the previous one, you can see my year in review 2022 to catch up. This year has been a year of pain. There’s no easy way of saying it. While I continued to grow, I had to start slowing …
As I get older, I realize there are problems in life that you cannot solve. I’m not saying that package management is an impossible problem, but it is more so like politics or nature. Package management is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying …
One of the harsh realities is realizing your character flaws as an adult. I’ve been a chronic complainer for many years of my life. It is the easiest thing to do in most situations. The world is constantly complaining, what does it hurt if one more person does it? The problem with one complaint is …
These last couple years of my life have been the most rewarding and most difficult. Life has continued to give me lemons, but at the crutch that I no longer want lemons, I want my health. I’ve been going through a little dark age. A page that I would love to burn out of the …
Have you ever been told to shut up and you repress your true feelings? Have you done that each time you’ve encountered an especially stressful event in your life? Soon enough you have mastered the ability to disassociate. Congratulations, you’ve now become comfortably numb to the pain inside. I’ve always had heightened emotions. As a …
Why is it that the ancient philosophers and spiritual thinkers refused to write down their ideas? Socrates never wrote a book, the Buddha, Jesus, nor Confucius either. Perhaps it was their oral tradition where the transmission of knowledge happened through communication and socialization. The constant discourse, dialogues, and storytelling that we contemporaries reflect upon and …
Life is stressful. Nobody can escape stress, but we can become more aware of it. Stress develops in three stages: 1. The alarm reaction 2. The stage of resistance 3. The stage of exhaustion Everyone goes through these three stages constantly through their lives. Jobs get stressful and push us to the brink of burnout …
The strongest and most brilliant individuals I know have two things in common. The first is they are kind. Always going out of their way to help others. The second is they are humble. Always bringing their accomplishments down to earth. One thing I have noticed however is that there seems to be a tendency …
