Prelude 6 am, alarm rings. Amy promptly raises her head from the silk pillowcase and with a choreographed move, one that would make even a Russian ballerina jealous, she stops the jingle on the phone. She checks her sleep app. …
“Let me show you something,” she said, as if she was going to let me in on a secret. Brimming with excitement, her eyes alight with anticipation, my mom opened an overhead cabinet and, making an effort to reach inside,…
Reading fiction usually doesn’t make the list for “[insert number] things you need to do to get your life around,” but maybe it should. If you spend enough time in some corners of the internet, you may get the impression…
If you don’t think a liberal education would be of value to you, you’re precisely the person who needs it the most. It is said that one of the greatest displays of courage is to deviate from the beaten path.…
In my quest for knowledge, I’ve observed a puzzling behavior: although I have more than 300 books on my “to read” list, I never cease to search for new reading material. I do this not because I am seeking the…
I don’t have a TikTok account and I don’t keep up with all the ridiculous trends that are unraveling on that platform. But inevitably, the tidal wave of the internet washes the “latest big thing” on other social spaces as…
The messiness of life is part of its charm. As much as we’d like to tame the erratic flow of events and have it under control, we can’t guarantee a smooth sailing. Unexpected situations, emergencies or accidents are bound to…
A person boasting about how he doesn’t even notice other people’s skin color. Another one proposing that all we need for a better world is love. And finally someone claiming that we don’t need to take measures against any injustice,…
Over 2 millennia ago, Socrates declared that the unexamined life is not worth living. If we were to adapt this maxim for the 21st century, a good candidate would be “the unoptimized life is not worth living.” It seems everywhere…
I recently stumbled upon the practice of keeping a commonplace book and I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind since. I was struck by how it seems to embody the natural messiness of life and support…