A blindfold for things past
A common question is to ask whether a person prefers the sunrise or the sunset.While there is undeniable magic in beginnings, in the rare encounter of a sun rising, in…
Category: Quasi-philosophy
Not quite philosophy, not quite anything else. Simply deeper thoughts for those deeper moments.
What doesn’t kill you…
I have come to truly despise nonsense quasi-philosophical motivational phrases. In short they are phrases such as: ‘cheer up’ and ‘move on’; elongated they read: “Every cloud has a silver…
Smile for the cameras
It never used to bother me that the purpose of life hid somewhere over the rainbow. I took pleasure in the search for it. Lately what was a happy search…
Red pill or blue pill
Watching The Matrix again for the first time in a long time I not only relive some emo-grunge fashion trends and vintage cellphones from young adolescence (and what unmistakable looks…
Geronimo!
There are some moments that if you have not experienced them you have not yet truly lived. One of them can, with a bit of imagination, be described roughly as…
Carpe f***ing diem
(Written months, months and … years? ago…) Quite a while ago, while browsing the ridiculously overpriced shop at Stockholm’s modern museum, I stumbled upon one of the best book…
On the shortness of life
Beneath me stood 200 meters of precipitous mountain wall. My hands burned as they, for dear life, held on to metal-wires and bits and pieces of the rock. My toes rested aggressively on…
Chasing Cunégonda
What is it that keeps us going? To draw breath one more time, to rise one more time, to walk one more mile, to fight one more battle, to love…
Closet racism
Being ‘elsewhere’ rather often I have the privilege to meet people from all over the world on a regular basis. Despite enjoying this immensely, I immediately categorize these people into two…