#philosophy

I was, am and will be hyper-vigilant.And today I can say it without shame and without wanting to change who I am. Because hypervigilance was also a way of learning to be attentive, to read the world, to

! Please note that I am not affiliated with any left-wing party. I am someone who believes in a government that intervenes less in the economy and collects fewer taxes, but ensures that tax revenue is

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux takes a call from a man asking if his girlfriend is bad for him. He looks at her health problems, past abuse, and the unstable relationship, then tells the caller to stop mixing

One thing I have learnt in life is that the older we grow, the better we understand life. I have yet to see a human being without shortcomings, no matter who that person is. It doesn’t matter their job,

Gandalf taken by a Balrog in Moria surprised Smallsteps, as he had been a staple character through the Hobbit also. However, even at that point she was working out ways he may have survived and suspected

We believe that an extraordinary life has to look extraordinary. That has to be noticed. That has to provoke admiration. But over the years one begins to discover that there are lives that look spectacular

The picture is of my gym locker padlock. It is a three-wheel model, which means it has 1000 possible combinations. Considering it has to protect a gym bag with an inhaler in it, that is good enough. In

My phone buzzes with zero notifications that matter. The room smells like the tea leaves I boiled twice to stretch them. I check my account balance—still sitting in double digits—and pack my bag for another

Who is to be held accountable? In Australia and Finland (and I assume many other countries) private gun storage laws are quite strict and require the gun to be stored unloaded, behind lock and key, and

"The child is a reflection of us, and the small things they do hold lessons we desperately need in our own lives." image from pexels I don't know if this one will matter to the Hive community,

Cada vez que lo pienso, me doy cuenta de que la vida es una cosa curiosa, porque muchas veces conseguimos metas que no nos proponemos y otras, en cambio, no conseguimos absolutamente nada de lo que pensamos.

My grandfather spent most of his life moving through the brush, watching how things actually worked when no one was around to watch. image from pexels One afternoon, he pointed up at a bird's nest dangling

Life is full of moments you didn't expect, low blows that surprise you and the first thing that comes to your mind is “fuck, WHY? "They say that for those things, there are no answers, but this one

One of humanity’s greatest struggles is the fact that we are almost never “at peace.” The ceaseless search for comfort, novelty, protection, and sustenance has been—and always will be—the foundation of

"If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all" _Thumper While I agree with the sentiment that we should be kind to each other, I also believe that this kind of mentality has been

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

My life has changed, wow, a lot indeed. This time last year I was somewhere in the mountains, trying to figure out what I was most excited about in life. Caught in an endless, emotionally exhausting to

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

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

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