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― Benjamin Franklin
What do you want to be when you grow up?
It’s taken me 24 years, but I’ve finally decided what I want to be when I grow up… I want to be happy. I always struggled growing up knowing what to be. Which was a frustrating experience as the question of “What do you want to be when you grow up?” seemed to be a regular question at family get-togethers along with other talking points such as “Look how tall you’ve grown”, “How’s school?” and [...]
The curious case of friendship
We value friends, but the path of friendship is rarely commenced deliberately. Rather than picking our friends based on intentional choice like common values and interests, our friendships start through seemingly random meetings. I find it profound how the bond of friendship, something so life shaping and held in such esteem, can be stumbled upon so serendipitously. How different would our lives be if our closest friend had simply been in a different place and [...]
We are all better than we think we are
We as humans can sympathise with almost anything. If an old building gets knocked down, we are upset by its removal. If I told you a shark died tangled in a fisherman’s net in the ocean today, you’d feel a little saddened. I can tell you that my pencil’s name is Steve and that he’s lost, and your day just got a little bit darker. Because people can connect with anything. We can sympathize with [...]