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The Min/Max Trap: Why I’m Learning to Play Life Sub-Optimally

If life came with a cheat sheet - a definitive walkthrough showing the optimal setup for happiness, career, and even how to spend a Friday evening. Would you use it?

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March 14, 2026
The Mirror

The Saddest Friendships Are the Ones That Never Officially End

Do we all ask the same question at some point in our lives: Do we have fewer friends as we get older? Yet many of us probably cannot even recall…

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May 27, 2026
The Mirror

When Karma Doesn’t Come: How Do We Live with Unfairness?

That’s one of the hardest things adulthood teaches people who care deeply about fairness. Sometimes karma never comes. Sometimes the truth never gets properly examined. And the real damage begins…

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March 7, 2026
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    The Mirror

    The Different Ways Adult Friendships End

    May 22, 2026 /

    Some friendships explode; others erode. Some disappear through silence, while others remain alive online in this strange half-state where interaction continues, but real intimacy never returns...

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    When Was the Last Time You Were Truly Happy? Rethinking Happiness in Adulthood

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    Some Friendships End the Moment Fake Peace Surfaces

    May 20, 2026 /

    I still think the worst part wasn’t the accusation itself - People misunderstand each other. Apps glitch. I can accept that. What stayed with me was the feeling that my explanation didn’t really matter once the suspicion had settled into place...

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    Passed Over for Promotion: The Silent Frustration of Being an Overlooked Employee

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    Have You Ever Thought, “I’m Done Being Nice”?

    July 30, 2026
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    Why Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Isn’t a Superpower – And Not a Curse Either

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    Passed Over for Promotion: The Silent Frustration of Being an Overlooked Employee

    April 27, 2026 /

    Does my silence make them see me as just an "insignificant staff" member? When there are only a handful of spots on that promotion list, maybe they just give them to the names and faces they actually chat with...

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    Frieren and the Friction of Forever: Why a Short Life is the Only One Worth Living

    April 25, 2026 /

    If a sunset lasted for a thousand years, you wouldn’t bother looking up from your phone. If you had five hundred years to tell someone you loved them, you would probably just wait until another tomorrow...

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    Have You Ever Been Embarrassed by Your Father? What Big Fish and I Am Sam Reveal About Understanding Our Fathers

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    The Invisible Tax of Being Too Nice: Why the Adult World Might Need an Attitude

    April 9, 2026 /

    I’ve just seen how people treat a "pushover." They don't usually think, Wow, what a selfless person. They usually just stop thinking about you entirely...

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    The Thirty-Minute Buffer: How Email Scheduling Helped Me Reclaim My Peace

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    Time Feels Faster as We Age? Why Our Brains Start Losing Track of the Years

    April 6, 2026 /

    Even COVID has started producing this feeling. Sometimes somebody casually mentions lockdowns, mask mandates, or working from home. An event that completely disrupted human life across the entire planet somehow already feels both emotionally close and strangely distant at the same time...

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