There’s gotta be a point where we stop pointing fingers, placing blame and making excuses and face the intense reality that this isn’t a dress rehearsal, this is life. There are no do-overs, this is it, and not all your problems are your fault, but all your problems are your responsibility. There won’t be a calvary showing up to save the day, mom and dad can’t always bail us out, and there aren’t going to be any happy endings. We have to take control of our situations and do what’s best for us. Nobody is going to die for you…

Social media isn’t an absolutely evil entity, it’s the reason you know who I am, but there’s a permanence to social media that is hard to conceive. Every word we type on here will last FOREVER, and the way information has been weaponized, this stuff can come back to bite anyone in the ass at any time. When I was 16, I lived with my heart much more than my head and made impulsive decisions, but everything wasn’t recorded permanently onto the cloud. Every picture we post, every comment we leave, every keystroke we make is more permanent than a…

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The only true freedom is that which comes through discipline. Discipline allows us to make more sustainable choices, and incremental improvements, so we can exist beyond that dopamine fix.

I’m not the epitome of discipline, but working on it every day has let the baby steps add up. I have the luxury to binge-watch shows and not be up in the morning most days of the week, but that won’t be the case for long if I keep it up, so I try to enjoy my vices in moderation; that works…

It’s simple, to stand with farmers of India isn’t to start a privileged debate over government policies, it’s a stance that encourages individuals and groups to fight to preserve their dignity and way of life. Over 350 Farmer groups have been demonstrating in over 20,000 locations across India against new policies that are largely seen as pro-corporation and anti-farmer. These are people that have fed their country for generations, and they deserve a hand and voice in their future. The government’s violent response to their demonstrations is more reason why their voice needs to be amplified

The pandemic has shown…

I’ve been trying to own up to my whack decisions & behaviour, and a big one was mixing up self-reliance with independence. I view people getting close to me as a threat to my independence, not owning that I, like all humans, need other people. When we rely on each other, we’re better primed to take more risks, responsibility, grow and be more self-reliant, but my personal story made me think I had to do it on my own. What I feel like this skewed mindset creates is a bunch of lonely loners. …

Sometimes we call it depression when it’s much more complicated than that. When life gets overwhelming, and we don’t have the energy, tools, strategies, and bandwidth to deal with it, we resign to the idea that something is just wrong with us; and that can often be the furthest from the truth.

Many of our choice either help or hurt our ability to deal with all the shit life throws us. …

Democracy is a super interesting social experiment. It’s one of the few ways of governing that makes room to adjust and evolve. Many of the largest democracies in the world hardly feel like everyone has a voice, but there are tiny opportunities to change that; those tiny opportunities are better than the non-existent opportunities in other places of the world.

Sometimes we have a choice, sometimes it’s only an illusion of choice, and sometimes there’s no choice at all. Regardless, there’s always an opportunity to amplify voices, take actions, get involved, and be more informed.

“Democracy is the worst form…

A survival mechanism we have is to ignore things that are going well and focus on things out of place. This kept us from getting eaten by the dinosaurs and skinny dipping into volcanos. It’s the reason you can’t smell things in your house, and don’t notice 99% of the things happening in life. Our brains have to decide what’s important and what should be disregarded. This was great back then, but now, it’s become a massive source of anxiety for us.

The fact that you’re reading this means most of your life is going well. You have the basic…