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Everyday Stories, Lived

Life

  • Why we’re (often) frustrated with work

    If it’s up to you alone to get more done, then attempts to moderate your workload can be misinterpreted as laziness. The Frustration with Productivity Culture Has anyone called you lazy for taking a break or distributing your workload such that you can still have time to be human? I remember being told by someone… Read more

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  • Letter no. 13

    Dear reader from the future, I finished Stargirl overnight. It’s a book written for ages 12+, but I welcomed the light read, nonetheless. What compelled me to write this is how it captured our struggles growing up–where we are implicitly called to conform. As a young adult I was once was, I experienced how nonconformity… Read more

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  • All the missed moments

    So many things to do, but we can only be in one moment at a time. The best thing to do that we don’t waste it is to be present and, at the same time, be grateful. Gratitude can make a difference. Read more

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  • Buy, buy, buy, and endless consumerism

    Society today puts too much weight on material objects, and there are too many people who own way more than they need. Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism With the monthly sale right down the corner, it’s worth noting how our culture encourages us to consume material things, making it even more vague to distinguish… Read more

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  • Making eye contact

    Have you noticed how many times you have talked to people without looking at them at all? That’s right. So the next time you talk with people, especially those who really matter to you, take time to communicate with intention. Because looking at one another through each other’s eyes makes the moment more meaningful and… Read more

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  • Quality time and intentions

    Quality time with the people we value isn’t just about being in the same place, browsing our mobile phones. Quality time is when we connect with one another, seeing another person as a human being, just like us. And it takes intention to do just that. Read more

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  • What we leave here, now

    Four years ago, this is what I wrote: We hustle our already fast-paced lives and take all there is we can take. We take space. We take dominance. We take hearts. And just as how fast we come into place, we will notice too late that we disappear gradually through time. Remembered by the few… Read more

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