What can you gain from the people you dislike?
By spending lots of time with myself in the past year, I realized that I’m bothered by people in my life whenever I see my own flaws projected onto them. The characteristics that annoy and anger me most are things I hate about myself. If someone has a bothersome trait that I know I don’t…
What if we had to relive our current lives again and again?
Time would progress in a circle rather than a straight line, forcing us to experience all the same hardships and blessings in life over and over again. Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence stood out to me ever since I first learned it. How awful. As someone who needs constant change and hates routines, I would…
Ages 13-18: Five Important Things I’ve Learned
A few hours before the arrival of 2021, I sit in my old room at my parents’ home in Washington. Exactly a year ago, I was at a party, excitedly awaiting the roaring 20s of our millennium. Instead, we welcomed in a year of immense loss. Rather than attending a raving celebration, I find myself…
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