#reflect

Junio, antes de los Terremotos

That’s not what happens. It’s never what happens to us. It’s not what happens that will determine the quality or longevity of our lives. It’s not what happens. And the reason for this lies in the fact

I am reading The Fellowship of the Ring to Smallsteps at night and just finished the chapter "The Bridge of Khazad-dûm" in which at the end Gandalf is pulled by the Balrog into the chasm to his

Still Here, Still Routing for Hive, Still Building Up my HP It’s been several months since my last post. They’ve been busy months, during which I’ve had plenty to do and little time to write anything here

Reflecting on important choices

There is something fascinating about what human hands can do. PEXELS Give two people the same material and you can get completely different results. One person sees an ordinary piece of fabric, wood, metal

Harness the fire. While humans didn't invent it, it could definitely be argued that harnessing fire was the most significant achievement of humanity, as it led to all kinds of capabilities that were previously

Last weekend an Australian athlete won a Hyrox event (some crazy exercise trend in gyms across the world) after she had soiled herself. This is not uncommon under extreme physical conditions, with it happening

If you were watching a movie of your life and you were the main character, would you be happy with how the story is going? This morning, I got some sparkles. I think that if I were to watch a movie of

15/9/26 Welcome to a new post, dear Hiver! Does my blog have personality? I think personality is something you develop over time. I was reading @acidyo's post, Does your blog has character?, and it’s a

India is a place where different eras live side by side. In a single glance, we might see a centuries old fort or temple standing right next to a gleaming, ultra-modern tech hub. Bullcart carts occasionally

A friend dropped by for a coffee last night and we spent the time talking about lots of things like normal, but concentrated a fair bit on how we are getting worse as humans, because very little of what

This past Monday, the 14th, marked the choir's first gathering since that infamous June 24th, when our city was violently shaken by a double earthquake that changed our lives.

This content that I am writing today, to share with you is a very deep conversation based on identity, pressure, expectations, and what really happens when our life starts to revolve around what others

10 days ago, I found myself at the bottom of the hole yet again. I wasn't photographing anything anymore for a week then, maybe more. I was taking pictures, yes, but nothing to post here. I wasn't able

Hello Hive Fam! I hope everyone is doing well today! I’d like to share a little reflection about a place that once felt like my second home : Starmall EDSA‑Shaw in Mandaluyong, Philippines.

The average novel is around 90,000 words. That means that in my almost ten years here on Hive and its predecessor, I have written in articles alone just over 77 average-length novels worth of words. I

While it was a small sample size of a few thousand, it was pretty interesting to hear that 20% of Gen-Zers have given up on relationships with humans in favour of relationships with AIs. I don't know how

This will be a weekly Sunday hangout between friends, where everyone else is also invited to join in on the conversations. A Sunday party for Hive users to interact and just talk crap about whatever happens

When I was still living in Australia, a friend of mine was doing a project for her marketing course and was interviewing arrivals at the Cairns airport in the morning, to ask them about their travel plans