📝 My Stoic Journal Week 3: Take an Outside View—Self-Sympathy Over Self-Empathy
This week's exercise from a handbook for new Stoics focuses on comforting ourselves by achieving equanimity through a shift in perspective regarding our own troubles....
All Musings
2025
📝 My Stoic Journal: Week 2 Focus on What Is Completely in Your Control
This week, the exercise focuses on the concept of aversion, which can be seen as a type of desire, as in the desire to avoid...
📝 My Stoic Journal: Week 1 – Starting a Stoic Journal in 2025
I purchased A Handbook for New Stoics by Massimo Pigliucci about four years ago, alongside The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday. For the past four years,...
Recent Musings
2024
📝 Making Life Matter—Awesome and Extraordinary Life Starts With Now
We want our lives to matter, but when we are among billions of billions of people, it’s challenging to feel like our existence truly matters....
📝 Weathering the Storms of Life
Weather is something we can never be absolutely certain about until we actually experience it. We can guess, predict, and forecast, but weather always moves...
📝 A New Path to Self-Trust
I’ve realized that I never fully trust myself. It’s a feeling I’ve carried since childhood. I often find myself uncertain and indecisive, thinking too much...
The Joy of Eating: A Reflection
Why do we enjoy eating so much? I think it’s because it’s one of the few pleasures derived from engaging our senses in a way...
Can I Write My Way Out of Problems?
When I'm lost in the abyss of life’s complexities, is it possible to use my own words as a vehicle for insight and write my...
Digging Up Your Mind: A Discovery Through Writing
Writing is a journey of discovery, you won’t know what will emerge on the page until you put the words down. Writing is like digging...
My Newfound Appreciation for the Song "Oblivion" by Bastille
The song "Oblivion" by Bastille has always held a special place in my heart since its release. “When you fall asleep with your head upon...
Being a Bilingual Is Like Having a Double Identity
When people think about being bilingual, they often assume it involves simply translating between two languages. Nope. Being bilingual is about adopting a new mode...
It's Okay to Not Write
Sometimes you don’t have anything to write, and your mind falls into silence. There's nothing to rant about, nothing to evaluate, nothing to think. Rather...
An Extra Day
Today is February 29th, also known as leap day, it's natural to ponder what we would do with this extra day gifted to us every...
Morning Pages: The Power of Writing What’s on Your Mind Everyday.
Writing is not something that comes naturally for most people, but it is one of the most powerful ways to transform ourselves. It is a...
It's Time To Stop Being A Hoarder
I have a hoarding habit, but it's not with physical objects due to my limited space. Instead, I hoard everything digitally. Photos, music, movies, books,...
Hello, Scribbles and a holla to my future self.
I finally got the invite for Scribbles! Don't get me wrong, Micro.blog is a wonderful platform for connecting with others and sharing snippets of my...