Tiredness MMT about our private stories

Some days we're tired. Today was such a day. Probably because I didn't sleep enough. But tiredness makes us see the world differently. Today, everything at sheen of tiredness over it. A name for this could be misattribution or projection. We often misattribute or project our emotions out onto the world. A bad night of …

Cravings MMT about fortress ego

I crave a lot of things. Usually mundane things like binging a series or pizza. Preferably both. Often, these simple desires camouflage a deeper restlessness. In 2019, I wrote a blog post at Medium.com about my experience with my own cravings. What is it that we really want? It's a good question. The answer I …

Medium: Learning to embrace the present

Slow living, literally, is a shortcut to the present moment. Since our bodies are not used to doing things slower or faster than our learned ingrained speed, it requires focus and attention. By definition, attention at doing is attention to the present moment, thus, a shortcut to mindfulness.

Quarantine Diaries

The archive contains the following item (#37451): a diary detailing the struggles of one man during what seems to be enforced isolation. The text is believed to be written during the end of the Meghalayan age (in the Holocene epoch of the Quaternary period of the Cenozoic era of the Phanerozoic eon), also known as …

The story as a spiritual practice

A year ago I launched my Medium.com "career" with the brainchild of a whole Christmas vacation worth of reflection.  Inspired by Yuval Harari's Homo Deus and Sapiens I wrote a longer piece about how we view the world is shaped by stories, how narratives shape our lives. It was in many ways my first coherent world view.