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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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  • The Mirror

    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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    The Saddest Friendships Are the Ones That Never Officially End

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

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

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  • The Screen

    Never Let Me Go: The Quiet Tragedy of Being Human

    March 11, 2026 /

    Many people quietly accept lives they never truly chose. They follow paths laid out by circumstance. And eventually the shape of life becomes fixed - not through force, but through gradual surrender...

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  • The Hearth

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

    April 9, 2026
  • 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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