jessa

Reflections on becoming

Life

  • Automatic checkout and endless consumerism

    Automatic checkout, which frees customers from drudgery of waiting, is already here. The Future is Faster Than You Think However, this solution also became a problem for some of us. Where convenience became the source of feel-good moments that made people more and more addicted to needless consumption. Generations past used to hold the idea Read more


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  • Angry chicken

    I was feeding our chickens one afternoon, and if you haven’t been around chickens before, they clack while running to wherever the food is. Yes, they gather around the food and peck some of whatever they can get. But every time I toss the food around, one particular hen went berserk and chased everyone off. Read more


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  • Being in a family

    Just because you are a part of a family doesn’t mean you’re having life easy. Easier must be. But easy? I don’t think so. Why would I say that? Because admit it or not, you’re still learning how to deal with everybody in the family. Even if you have the same upbringing or values, there Read more


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  • Floating like a bubble, numbing down

    At one time or another, you’ve been fascinated by bubbles. Here now and poof! Gone. So you make them again and again and again. It’s as if your mind is numb from doing anything else but making bubbles until you are out of breath. Then you pause and do it one more time (again). The Read more


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  • On the verge of giving up

    When was the last time you told yourself, “I had enough.”? Probably, you have told yourself that many times already, and you think that this one is different from what came before it. If that’s the case, what made you think of it that way? Maybe, you have stopped asking yourself why you need to keep on Read more


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