Many articles, movies and publications have made reference in a myriad of communication streams that the three primary desires that human beings have are: The desire to be important and influential, the desire to love and belong and the desire to be happy. Without even looking at external influences, think about yourself for a moment. […]
Schadenfreude is defined as the feeling of getting a little happy about the fact that somebody else besides you is having a bit of a hard time in life. Here is the thing about us as human beings. We have the ability to empathise, sympathise and be compassionate about situations that our friends and other […]
I too decided to jump onto this bandwagon (weeks after the hype has died down – late bloomer much?!) wrought with racial slurs thrown this way, that way and the other way. What a way to get into the year 2016! Quite naturally when such commentary occurs, we are inclined to clutch our pearl strings […]
We are all paving our way towards a better path and destiny, save for those who are intent to go the opposite direction. It hardly comes as a surprise that if we were born to be evolutionary beings, it goes without saying that during the course of our lives we will evolve and transform. It […]
“I think I will take this approach as the benefits seem to outweigh the cons.” “No, I think I will actually take the latter approach because even though the benefits are not as weighty as the first approach, they would still suffice.” “Oh gosh, I actually don’t know what to choose! This is too much […]
Here I am at 12:43 am, past midnight, wide awake (while everything else around me in the vicinity is still -a tad eerie – and the only sound I can hear is that of me frantically typing away) and musing to myself about the very nature of the human species. The very concept of breathing […]
Life can be so much fun, purposeful, and full of energy-induced vigour and plenty of joie de vivre moments. Hooray, you say! What happens though when your life is not at all the life you envisioned for yourself? Where others see roses and blossoming orchids you see misery, dreary and ever so bleak outlooks. When […]
The concept of being a writer comes with such a heavy title. A writer has the gift and ability to project thoughts onto paper with such vividness it blinds the glares of the peeping rays of light. A writer is able to completely and imaginatively build a utopian world that has never been inhabited, never […]
The word ‘Precedence’ is such a powerful word. It denotes a setting of what will then be an influential operation system in society. It is, in other words, a bench mark. Think of laws and regulations, especially with regard to common law. Certain customs were practiced over the years and carried over from one generation […]
The concept of being private means many things to many people in the generic sense of the definition of privacy. We have our own notions of privacy and what it entails. We choose to tell certain people certain aspects of our lives because we trust that they will not misuse the information shared and the […]