Category: Relationships
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Normalization
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In previous posts, I’ve written a little about my experiences dating post-divorce. Overall, my experiences were very positive, I met some amazing people. With some I connected, with others I didn’t. I started thinking about dating and my past relationships because of a socio-economic term I had been reading about: Hypernormalization. It…
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Fighting With Kindness
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“You think because I’m kind that it means I’m naive, and maybe I am. It’s strategic and necessary. This is how I fight. When I choose to see the good side of things, I’m not being naive. It’s how I’ve learned to survive through everything.” Waymond Wang, Everything Everywhere All…
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Change is Going to Come
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We’re terrible at predicting change Why are we afraid of change? We’re bad at adapting to it, anticipating it, and, in some cases, accepting it. This is illustrated in the psychological phenomenon called the “End of History Illusion”. Basically, humans are good at recognizing changes in the past but terrible…
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Confidently Incorrect
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I have a confession: I’m a late bloomer. I tend to figure things out after everyone else around me has. I don’t know if it has anything to do with ADHD (which I didn’t discover until my 40s), but I’ve come to terms with the fact that I need a…
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This is Water
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The late David Foster Wallace compared thoughtfulness, cooperation, empathy, and living a compassionate life to the story about the fish who had never heard of water. In addressing the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College, he delivered what I believe is one of the greatest speeches ever made. I’ve linked…