Essays on memory, identity, and the unspoken parts of being human.
A father reflects on his digital legacy and sharenting risks after finding an old tweet. He explores online privacy and social media anxiety, wondering if it is possible to learn how to disappear from the internet completely. The data remains forever, haunting the living with a permanent, unreadable digital footprint.
Is phone addiction stealing your life? I realized I needed to learn how to stop checking phone constantly to save my family connection. By embracing slow living and quiet reflection, I found mental clarity away from the screen. This story explores overcoming digital burnout and the joy of being present.
Are you missing your child’s life while scrolling? This moving story explores the painful reality of digital distraction and offers a guide on how to stop looking at your phone around kids. Learn how to reclaim your focus, rebuild lost connections, and finally be present for the moments that matter.
I posted about poverty daily while stepping over homeless people. When the man on my sidewalk died, everything changed. This is about closing the gap between performative social media activism and real community action—between posting about injustice and actually showing up.
I know Maria’s coffee maker is broken and her deepest fears of dying alone, yet I’ve never heard her voice. A profound reflection on how social media affects relationships, creating an unsettling reality where we are intimately connected to strangers while becoming strangers to the people sitting right next to us
The Birthday Behind the Screen I watched my son blow out his candles through my phone screen. Not with my eyes—with the camera. I held the device steady, making sure the angle was right, the lighting good, his face centered in the frame. I saw him take that deep breath, saw his cheeks puff out,
Scrolling through high school reunion photos, everyone commented “best years of our lives!” Then I opened my old diary and discovered how brutally my memory had edited the truth.
The claim that conscious beings represent “the universe understanding itself” requires rigorous analysis. Through consciousness, the universe gains capacities for self-reference that transform its ontological status through genuine reflexive knowledge.
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Why do people become strangers the moment elevator doors close? Explore the psychology behind elevator etiquette, social anxiety, and the unspoken rules that govern our behavior in confined spaces.
How do you explain homesickness for a place that doesn’t exist? “Like I’m missing somewhere. But I don’t know where.” She sat beside me. “The nowhere feeling?” “You know it?” “Everyone knows it. We just don’t talk about it.”
I destroy things when they get comfortable. Intense, then distant. With her. With work. With Arash. That cycle. But maybe staying with things, even when boring, is what matters most.
“These words found the feelings I couldn’t name.”
“Like finding letters I wrote to myself but never sent.”
“Writing that makes you stop and remember what it means to be alive.”
Curated insights, thoughtfully delivered. No clutter.
