Life
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A shift in workspace
Location matters when you want to pursue productive work. I’ve been doing most of my academic and professional activities away from home, setting my state of mind that going home means rest. And so, working from home with familiar faces from childhood feels like working against the current—I have to exert more effort to focus Read more
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Digital identities
It’s easy to judge others from a distance without truly knowing them because distance creates the illusion that they are unfeeling and disconnected from our shared humanity. No wonder we are tempted to be rowdy online where our online reputation seems trivial and disposable as we hide behind our glowing screens and are shielded from Read more
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We feel like drifters again
I don’t know what went inside the mind of our little white furball when I put him in his travel backpack, along with his small black squirrel toy, and brought him outside to be carried away by a stranger to a cat-boarding house for the Christmas break. One moment, I roused him from his deep Read more
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Late-night musings #23
Whenever I go back to where I began, I always think about why I decided to go away—the invisible hands that keep you from growing and seeing a kind of better you would always find elsewhere and never at home. At the same time, going back home also means I now know what I can Read more
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Desires influence decision
Tick tock . . . Tick tock. . . I could watch the second hand go round and round, letting minutes slip into hours. When I finally snap out of it, one question echoes: “Did I make the best use of my time?” Character creates desires and desires create decisions. This truth reverberated on me Read more
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