From what we have witnessed history-wise is that the colonizer always tries to make the colonized people forget their mother-tongue-language and adopt the colonizer’s language. Such mentality of having the need of others to accommodate their own lives in order to fit the liking of one’s opinion is quite backward. Just like a kid that…
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Negotiable Value
The word “Value” has multiple meanings in different perspective but at the same time it has the same core. Generally, it is what is seen as important to a certain person or a group. The higher the importance, the higher the value. It can even be further broken down as to explaining what is important?…
The Line
A line can make multiple things from just stacking up other lines like itself. A horizontal line and a vertical one depending on their position in relation to each other can create different results and meaning just like the letters L and T. Lines of carbon chain can form graphite and then it can build…
An Advice
Growing up we face multiple life choices and routes and sometimes we just don’t know which decision is the right one. In such situations we might go for someone who went through somewhat similar routes for an advice on what did they choose and how the consequence was, and whether to or not follow the…
Dead Before Death
Death is the cease of existence in the physical world. Death can happen in two ways, sudden or slow. Even though sudden death causes higher shock reaction for those who knew who died. Slow death sometimes causes the dying person to die in the memories and thoughts of those around them before their actual own…
On Interpersonal Matters, and Tolerance
Living beings depend on each other for survival purposes. Even though that might not seem correct directly, however, a need for another breathing being is important for mental and emotional stability. Throughout the animal kingdom, we see that each species mostly depends on its own kind when it comes to such social matters. Humans, too,…
Plenty Moving Shadows and One is Still
As we grow up in our environment and we see the same people everyday, from family to classmates to neighbors. As kids we would think that those people will stay with us for the rest of our life; plus adding new ones here and there. Little did we know that life moves on and our…
Social Media Evolution and Oversharing
Social media has become the means of communication since the late 90’s till now. It created its own culture where there are certain ways and unwritten rules as to how people should do things the way they do online. This type of culture created dissonance between the virutal and normal life behaviour. My whole journey…
What is Good?
What is good? According to google dictionary, there are multiple definitions for this word depending on its proposition in a sentence. Generally, most of the definitions describe good as something wanted, righteous, or even a pleasant feeling. However, my question here is. What determines if something is good or not? Is it a common sense…
Cognitive Dissonance
Mind and body should work cooperatively. If there is disagreement between those two, the owner will fall in a state of delusion. In psychology, when the behavior doesn’t match the character there is a term that defines it as cognitive dissonance. Cognitive: the root word is cognition which is originally comes from “cognitio” in Latin…
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