Category: Commentary


  • The Drama Behind Shame.

    Will this article create a link between shame, the world present situation and morality? Well, we have to define shame, in seeking the meaning of the word, the dictionaries, books of learning and experiences within ourselves have brought us to understand that shame is a feeling of loss of respect, disappointment and dissatisfaction with something,…

  • The Myth Of Coincidence.

    I had written and published the second part of this work months prior, before I realised on Wednesday at exactly 12:46am while lounging with a lover. She visited my Medium page, picked that one out and read it out loud, and then I realised I had somehow put out the second and final part for…

  • The introvert’s inventory: Notes on a quiet life

    My algorithm knows me better than I sometimes know myself. Lately, it has been serving me a steady diet of introvert quotes: more like a digital nudge toward self-acceptance. The most resonant was one misattributed to Jane Austen: “I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy, but like everybody else, it must be…

  • “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges Over the past year, I have amassed a collection of over a hundred books, both physical and digital, driven at first by a sudden, burning resolve to gather as many as I could find. Among them was a notable…

  • The Child Is The Destination

    Naturally, one would expect and believe that childhood and its accompanying attributes are those of tenderness, innocence, and obedience. These attributes must then, by the guardians of the child, be cultivated in ways that benefit both the growing child and society at large. But can we truly say that is the case today? We cannot…