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  • Frieren, Eisen, Himmel, Heiter having foot bath at hot spring at sunset in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.
    The Screen

    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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    Severance: Who Is Really Living the Life?

    August 28, 2026

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

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    Never Let Me Go: The Quiet Tragedy of Being Human

    March 11, 2026
  • 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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    When Karma Doesn’t Come: How Do We Live with Unfairness?

    March 7, 2026

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

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    Why Does Work Reward the Performance of Performance?

    August 15, 2026
  • 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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    Soul: Do We Really Need to Find Our Purpose?

    March 18, 2026
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    Project Hail Mary and the Friendships That Survive After the Mission Ends

    June 2, 2026
  • 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
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    Why Being a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Isn’t a Superpower – And Not a Curse Either

    March 30, 2026
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    Have You Ever Thought, “I’m Done Being Nice”?

    July 30, 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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    May 25, 2026
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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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