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Everyday Stories, Lived

Life

  • The dance of meeting and parting ways

    We think that the people we meet daily will remain where they are or that we will be around them forever. But once somebody chooses to change their environment, say for career growth that your circles won’t overlap anymore, you’d be confronted by the reality of meeting people and parting ways with them at any… Read more

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  • Are people above sixty-five really “passive” these days?

    If you’re wondering where the concept of life stages learn, work, and retire (in order) came from, here’s a passage from my recent read: When the Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck implemented the first national old-age social insurance plan, he was attempting to “domesticate” the working class by offering them something to look forward to.… Read more

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  • The “3-2-1” backup rule

    What is the “3-2-1” backup rule? Have three (3) copies of your data where two (2) copies are stored in separate devices and one (1) is stored in a different physical location. But how much should we invest in storage these days so that we can afford to have this redundancy? Read more

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  • Overcoming self-imposed limitations

    Overcoming self-imposed limitations begins with saying, “I can.” When babies are still learning to walk, you never hear them say, “I can’t walk, might as well stop learning how to walk.” Instead, they take steps to make it happen, such as standing up and putting one foot in front of the other. They may fall… Read more

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  • Escaping real-life stressors

    Gaming allows us to immerse ourselves in new experiences and challenges (with less cost to none) and disconnect from real-life obligations by offering control, achievement, and temporary escape from our responsibilities. But if we consistently spend our waking hours playing computer games, like everything done in excess, it could result in problems like: 1. Neglect… Read more

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  • “Out of mind, out of sight” mentality

    Just because you can’t see the mess you’ve hidden in the dark doesn’t mean you did not take part in hiding it away, nor it ever existed. It’s better to do things right rather than double the effort of making things right, the ones you could have done right in the first place. Read more

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  • Blinded by ego

    When all we can think about is ourselves, then it becomes challenging to see things beyond ourselves. Thinking that the spotlight only revolves around us blinds us from seeing reality. Having an inflated sense of entitlement, thinking that we are the central figure in every encounter we have in this life, affects how we think… Read more

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