So… I have to admit that since my last post On Discipline, embracing discipline hasn’t been going so well. In fact, I think that right after I made the resolution to face discipline head-on, I got a little sidetracked. I got sidetracked on a brief journey of the self, trying to ascertain once and for […]
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Random Revelations
On Discipline (and Adulting — yes again)
So I’ve finally figured it out! This thing that has been bothering me about adulting. This thing that is so worthy of Awe, so deserving of Practice, and so mindblowing to me in my young adulthood, and it is this – Discipline! The discipline to go to bed on time The discipline to get up […]
Awestruck by Adulting
Over the last few days, weeks, and months, I have been repeatedly awestruck by the process of adult-ing. So awestruck in fact, that it has made me doubt my own adulthood, because:- I am awestruck when I witness my classmates get down on one knee to propose to their loves. I awestruck by their conviction, […]
A Masterpiece in Progress
Between the ages of 20 and 40 we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the difference between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow, and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impugnity. – W.H. Auden Last year, I turned thirty […]
Happy Valentines Day (2019)
Happy Valentines Day! On this special day, I want to celebrate by commemorating my love for my current companion. Let me begin by telling you the story of how we met. It was a normal day, and I was going about my regular duties, minding my own business (apparently she loved that), when she dawned […]