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    Her: Why We Must All Face Our Own Loneliness Eventually

    April 4, 2026 /

    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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    Never Let Me Go: The Quiet Tragedy of Being Human

    March 11, 2026
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    Frieren and the Friction of Forever: Why a Short Life is the Only One Worth Living

    April 25, 2026

    Soul: What If Life Was Never About Finding Your Purpose?

    March 18, 2026
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    Why Being Kind Doesn’t Make Life Easier (And Why It’s Still Worth It)

    March 20, 2026 /

    We like to imagine integrity as something noble and rewarding. In reality, it often feels socially inconvenient. Especially in workplaces. People stopped giving quiet warnings before work problems escalated...

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    What Losing Friends Taught Me About Friendship

    June 8, 2026

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

    February 27, 2026
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    When Was the Last Time You Were Truly Happy? Rethinking Happiness in Adulthood

    February 24, 2026
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    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
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    Passed Over for Promotion: The Silent Frustration of Being an Overlooked Employee

    April 27, 2026

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

    March 5, 2026
  • The Mirror

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

    March 7, 2026 /

    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 after the situation is already over...

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    The Different Ways Adult Friendships End

    May 22, 2026
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    When Was the Last Time You Were Truly Happy? Rethinking Happiness in Adulthood

    February 24, 2026

    Why Being Kind Doesn’t Make Life Easier (And Why It’s Still Worth It)

    March 20, 2026
  • The Mirror

    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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    Why Being Kind Doesn’t Make Life Easier (And Why It’s Still Worth It)

    March 20, 2026
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    The Saddest Friendships Are the Ones That Never Officially End

    May 27, 2026
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    The Different Ways Adult Friendships End

    May 22, 2026
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    The Mirror

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

    February 24, 2026 /

    For me, my mind usually drifts back to Saturday mornings in my 20s. I might not have had any real plans yet, but even the air felt brighter somehow. Back then, 48 hours did not feel like “remaining free time”. It felt like life opening outward again...

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    The Different Ways Adult Friendships End

    May 22, 2026

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

    April 6, 2026
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