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Severance: Who Is Really Living the Life?
At first glance, the arrangement seems wonderfully simple. You still earn a salary, and go home to your family or friends. You just never have to experience the unpleasant bit in between.
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Why Does Work Reward the Performance of Performance?
The cover becomes part of the assessment. Eventually, it can become difficult to tell whether someone is being recognised for what they did or for how convincingly they made it look important.
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Have You Ever Thought, “I’m Done Being Nice”?
One thing I started noticing was the greetings. For the last few years, I'd make a point of saying good morning to the receptionist and the admin ladies every morning. Sometimes they'd answer, sometimes they wouldn't. Like sometimes I exist, sometimes I don't...
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Have You Ever Been Embarrassed by Your Father? What Big Fish and I Am Sam Reveal About Understanding Our Fathers
Many father-child relationships probably follow a similar path. As children, we want someone to look up to. Then we reach our teenage years and become critics. But when we become adults, some of us eventually learn to become observers.
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What Losing Friends Taught Me About Friendship
I used to see "You can never have too many friends" as an unquestionable truth. But eventually I discovered a more practical one: we only have so much time. Losing friendships is not something I'm particularly sad about anymore...
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Project Hail Mary and the Friendships That Survive After the Mission Ends
Perhaps that's why Grace's decision lingers, as it reminds us how rare certain friendships are. Most people enter our lives through a shared chapter. Only a few become part of the story itself...
