Category: Culture
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Irony of Humanaity: The Worst and the Best of People
There’s something corrosive about encountering people who cause real harm. It may not be the ordinary friction of difficult personalities, but the kind of behavior that makes you reconsider your baseline assumptions about others. It doesn’t just hurt, but restructures. The trust in humanity that once felt natural starts to feel like a liability. This…
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Boredom Actually Exists for a Reason
There is a specific discomfort that comes with having nothing to do. Not tiredness or sadness, but something closer to restlessness. Instinctively, we reach for the phone, scroll on social media, scan the room to spot untidiness, put something on in the background, or find a task. If someone asked about it, we would say,…
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Literally Every Generation Thinks The Older Times Are Better
The current wave of nostalgia feels intense. Yet a less flattering description is a picture of the past that selectively carries our wishes. Facilitating with social media and search engines, vintage items are just one hashtag search away to satisfy the urge. The feeling of nostalgia is also perpetuating every generation. It’s not new. Nor…
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6 Non-English Words Express Emotions Better
While how a language expresses emotions is largely culture-specific, some words express specific emotions that we all understand. And they don’t exist in English. Gigil (Tagalog) This word captures a visceral, present-moment reaction to something overwhelmingly adorable. It describes that intense, almost aggressive urge to squeeze, pinch, or bite something adorable. The chubby-cheeked baby, a…
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Stop Worrying about Reputation; Focus on Characters Instead
Reputation is a story other people tell about you. It can be shaped, spun, withheld, or weaponized. Someone who wants to can take a single moment out of context and make it the whole of you in someone else’s mind. And there is almost nothing you can actually do about that. Stop worrying about reputation…
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