The world of academia is a curious one. You live for four years around people who all have complex, intricate, and often opposing views, and it makes you feel like you have no understanding. But then you go back to the real world, and you realize that you could chose to believe any of them and you’d be better off than what most people think about ( Read more... )

All we ever wanted was a moment of insight ( Read more... )

The intellectual pursuit is to sift through to the bottom of things. To understand the low level truths which form the basis of the complexity in life. For academics this may mean going to university to study the nature of reality in fields like neurobiology, particle physics, or even dare say, psychology. This may be the scholarly paradigm for ( Read more... )

Every life is so different.
A million choices everyday and none of us choose the same.
And the times we do. Rarely with the same thought or reason as another.
And yet (and yet) we find and love others.

And the most beautiful paradox:
the lives we are closest to are not really at all the same as our own.

"Fight for what you want
or be happy with what you have."

The past is a grotesque animal ( Read more... )

We do not know what to do with this short life,
Yet we want another which will be eternal

What was that ( Read more... )

The way your eyes run across something you see for the last time

Relationships begin in delusion.
It's difficult to tell how you truly feel about someone,
and even harder to understand how someone else truly feels about you.

Lasting relationships are ones that never cease to grow in understanding, and empathy.
Where together you grow to discover who you both truly are.