I sat there in silence, not knowing what to say. 😶 My friend was telling me about the everyday challenges of a cancer diagnosis. I was shocked by all the stories that don’t make it to the news. Simply getting from the parking lot to the hospital could now be…

Health My eyesight works or I have access to technology that help my vision. Before the 1300s, no one had glasses. Yet alone technology to fix blindness! My hearing works or I have access to technology that helps my hearing. Isn’t it amazing??? Look at how much joy people experience hearing…

In a hurry? Skim to the heading you like :-) Or see this summary. Airports, ports, transport of all sorts are desperately blockaded. 🚧 It’s the last attempt to prevent the spread of the deadly virus from Asia. This is not the story of COVID-19. It’s instead the plot of…

What I learned in 2021 — In the last 1.5 years of COVID, I spent 85% of every day alone in my house. This hurt my mental health and relationships a lot. I lost the best friend I’ve ever had in 2021. I want to concisely share some practical lessons I learned this year. I hope…

That’s a quotation from Naval Ravikant. I read it while going through the hardest period of life I’ve been through. My relationship with my best friend had collapsed and I just woke up to feel worthless and hopeless every day. 😶 But when I read that quotation, the hopelessness faded…

So I asked her for tips on how to be helpful! — But seriously… every time we talk, she tells me a story of another student asking her for help. There are five themes I learned from her stories: Recognising when to help How to comfort well How to listen well How to encourage others How to build trust I’ll cut the…

I’ll see lots of sights rushing past. Like this: One farm goes by. The next windmill. And so on. And so on. Everything is always changing. Nothing is fixed. Not me. Not the world. Not other people. And I’m not really looking out the train window. Everything is going on…

Imagine you’re looking out a window at the night sky… — It’s not full of fancy colours like in the movies. But it’s intriguing. So imagine you stared at just one tiny ‘pixel’ in the sky. Smaller than a square centimetre of space! If you looked close, you’d see something like this:

I never believed that saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words…” — That was, until three weeks ago. That’s when I came across this 1,950-word article that describes one picture: 💭💭💭💭💭💭 Actually stop to consider this for a bit 💭💭💭💭💭💭 💭💭💭💭💭💭 Actually stop to consider this for a bit 💭💭💭💭💭💭 💭💭💭💭💭💭 Actually stop to consider this for a bit 💭💭💭💭💭💭 This…