To me, dark academia, as a literary subgenre, is like the finest brand of wine. It’s a bountiful well of dark philosophy with a strong backbone of intellectualism, secret societies, and ...
This feeling is known to many. It's the feeling of perpetual repetition, where the rich color palette of your life fades and you feel stuck in your everyday routine. Days seem to fuse into...
Life is all about perspective. It's our perspective that defines our view and understanding of the world around us. And so, by changing perspective we can, in a way, change the world. Not ...
Life is a stressful event. From birth to death, we're subject to different types of stress, but in this article, I would like to focus on childhood stress and how the stress we go through ...
Life is complex but so are we, human beings, in both our design and manifestation. We think. We feel. We react. Moreover, we're the carriers of the footprints of our experiences from the p...
I found out about the existence of this book by accident, and just like many things in my life, accidental discoveries are later to reveal themselves worthy of my attention. I bet this one won...
We all feel—that’s what makes us humans. But in cases, when feelings overdrive us, when they become the sole definition of our worth, of who we are, that’s also what makes us...
I read Not Quite Out in 2021, the year it came out, and I’ve been wanting to review this book since then. This year, it’s 2023 now, I decided to start reviewing books on my website...
Some of us know that climate change is real. Others, even though believing the same, are still rather skeptical about the idea that we, humans, are the cause of it. But the truth stays. There ...
If you think that motivation or inspiration is the boost you need to start doing something—you’re wrong. Well, not entirely. Your brain does need a boost, you need energy to do thi...
It’s well-known that positive self-talk is a cognitive strategy that can help in maintaining focus, enhancing motivation, and coping with negative thoughts, emotions, and events. Talking...
Often the word "fluency" is used as a benchmark of one’s knowledge in a foreign language. For some, "fluent" is synonymous to "native"; indeed, how man...
When thinking about translation, our mind instinctually takes on a route that fixes our attention to the meaning standing behind the words; to what is said rather than to how it is said. Which...
