Tag: Life
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Raw Passage: Your Storied Life
Your life is a story. A clutter of seemingly random events. You look back to highlight certain moments in your book of life that are vital, significant to the main plot. You trace each thread back to their origins, where you think is it’s beginning, finding omens, signs and ironies dispersed along the way. Until…
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World Philosophy Day: Existentialism
What gives your life meaning? God? Money? Love? Work? Shopping? Jujitsu? Donuts? You must have a personal sense of purpose in your life. A sense of meaning is what we all crave, whether you consciously realize it or not. I believe it’s a personal responsibility to try to understand how and why we should make…
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Personal: A Dream
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau. I don’t usually get personal on my blog. It’s intended to be a place for my existential thoughts and creative writings. But this seems like a story (or dream) worth sharing. Months ago, I had a very…
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A Daring Adventure or Nothing at All
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller. After almost half a decade (close friends know that I’m a workaholic and this addiction started at a very young age) of working my ass off, there are things that I’m doing that doesn’t feel like an adventure anymore or at least…
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The Stranger
He is an undeserving prisoner of a very broken reality. The stranger cannot accept any standard answers of why they are the way they are. He sees hypocrisy and sentimentality everywhere and cannot overlook it. The stranger is an individual who cannot accept the explanations that are normally given to him to explain about the workplace, educational system,…
The Reasonable Writer by Faizul H. Ibrahim 