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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
The Hearth

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

What I'm really experimenting with is setting boundaries for my kindness. I might still be the nice one first, but it should always be a two-way street. If someone doesn't…

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July 30, 2026
The Screen

Her: Why We Must All Face Our Own Loneliness Eventually

When Her released in 2013, Samantha felt speculative. Now she feels alarmingly plausible - The modern world increasingly encourages people to manage loneliness through personalised stimulation rather than confrontation...

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April 4, 2026
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    The Hearth

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

    March 9, 2026 /

    If I schedule a reply for tomorrow and nobody follows up, it quietly reveals something: the task was never urgent in the first place. Workplace urgency is often theatre. Scheduling emails is simply drawing boundaries...

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

    March 14, 2026
  • The Mirror

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

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    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Why Perfect Forgetting Would Destroy Happiness

    March 7, 2026 /

    Because a life fully lived will never be spotless: the ache, the scar, the contrast - they are what prevent your heart from becoming its own eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

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    The Older I Get, the More Underachieved I Feel – What That Really Means

    March 5, 2026 /

    At 22, no one expects you to have it sorted. At 25, confusion is almost fashionable. But somewhere in your 30s (or even late 20s), the social scoreboard appears. Invisible, but very real...

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  • The Screen

    About Time: Why Growing Up is Something Even Superpowers Can’t Fix

    March 2, 2026 /

    You cannot perfect life without reshaping it. And growing up begins when you realise perfection is not the goal. And even superpowers can’t exempt you from becoming an adult...

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    Why Doomscrolling Feels So Draining – And How I Stopped Without Quitting Social Media

    February 27, 2026 /

    At one point, opening Instagram was muscle memory. Flick. Scroll. Double tap. A few reels. Some stories. And yet I would close the app with a strange aftertaste - I had consumed a lot. But I couldn’t recall anything...

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