Category: Reflections
Personal reflections about life — usually pulled from my journal.
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I think that climate change sometimes comes as a surprise to us because we think to ourselves, “How could we?” If we are creatures of the Earth, if “survival of the fittest” really curated us in a way to be fitted to our environment, then how could we be, with that evolutionary fit, wired with…
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My second grade teacher lets us have PE time once a day. On one of these days, we were playing a game of tug of war. We set up our teams and got ready, with one team on one side of the rope, and another team on the other, with a center point set up…
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I find it strange that we can be aware of our natural impulses (biology) and almost go against them (free will). By learning about psychology, I can be aware of what is happening in my brain, such as the availability heuristic, certain biases, or how my mood fluctuates at different phases of my menstrual cycle.…
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An empty line in a song, one that says “Tryna to find the right words,” one that says something not typically found in a song, one that defies the actual definitions of a song, like metacognition, but in this case writing about writing, declares something. It shows something special. “I don’t quite know how to…
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Why is the idea of cozying up in bed next to an open window that looks out to either a mere parking lot or the entire bustle of a big city so romantic to us? Because we feel ourselves fitting into a social ecosystem effortlessly. We are doing nothing special. We are not out front,…
