Reflections

The reflections community is for people who not only want to reflect on their life experience, but also want to discuss the practical steps they are taking to improve their situation, and that of the people

Most of my posts are reflections on life and my experiences living it, with the intent to understand why we do the things we do and whether we can improve upon them. These cover many various topics, but

Passing the stagnation patience test to the next generation We spend our lives planning for milestones, meticulously gathering records, and believing that a lifetime of responsibility will eventually pave

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

Smallsteps and I watched A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough, and I found it really good. It was released in 2020 when David was a young 93 years of age (he is 100 now), and had footage of him back

I never met my grandfather on my father's side, as he died well before I was born. However, back in Malaysia he worked as a postmaster, a post office manager in their Malaccan town, and during Japanese

Perhaps, it is time to purge and really start anew, to make room for something better. As I am writing this, I am also waiting my laptop to be completely purged so that it is ready to be sold. My old laptop

It has been nine years since our career paths separated when I decided to resign from the company.

Leaving Undeparted The leaves of trees, they come and go, Arrive in Spring and then fall away. In between the whitened ends of years, They bring fresh hopes that will not stay. Rains will fall and winds

Photo from Anatol Rurac at Unsplash I've been watching AI educational videos here and there for the past months. I tested OpenAI ChatGPT when it was launched to get the first insights of what AI was able

Have we truly given this question deep thought? I think that if we always kept this question in mind, some things in the world would be very different. Being human implies having a life—being alive, with

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

In the last month, I did a lot of changes within the company administration. I worked on my excel files in a way that allows the administrator to save 5h per week. Yes, it's that much. I was amazed. Especially

There is a very particular nostalgia in being a mom of adult children. It's not sadness because they've grown up. On the contrary. One wants to see them move forward, become independent, build a life and

I have a meeting this morning in the city and sitting in an almost empty café in a shopping centre, waiting. While I have been here, there have been several app delivery people come and go, picking up

For my birthday I got tickets to see Jimmy Carr perform his latest stand-up routine. Carr's style and humour is not to everyone's taste, since he tends to do a lot of one-liner comedy, but it is incredibly

Last week, I had a meeting with a different traumatologist to get a second opinion about my hip condition. I have been feeling slightly better since I came back from Portugal, but I am aware it is due

kill my dreams is to ask too many people what they think about them. Not everyone can see the potential of what you are still building, because each person interprets your possibility from their own limits.

There is a big difference between true love and attachment. Attachment exists when we cling to another person, object, or feeling. It’s when we become possessive and jealous of what we think we love. It’s