His Father Victor chooses to describe his lineage and his father, Alphonse, as being praised by the public. He describes his lineage as having been "most distinguished of that republic" and then their occupations as being "syndics and counselors". He does not make any mention of his grandfather or those before him in terms of their specific contributions to society or their family. As for his father, he mentions that he was an individual who was "respected by all who knew him" rather than loved...

In the search bar, I typed "smart people who killed themselves" and wondered what my subconscious hoped to obtain from the results of this query. Perhaps, I sought to know the reasons in which even a highly intelligent person would experience emotional overwhelm. This would suggest the assumption I have is that highly intelligent people kill themselves as a result of strong emotions even if the causes accumulated over time, or the approach to suicide was a premeditated one, or even if the emotio...

In the search bar, I typed "living vicariously reddit" and after hitting the return key, I wondered how my arms and fingers were more aware of my subconscious than my own conscious mind. I skimmed the page that appeared as I was not convinced this was my feeling and that my limbs were merely being dramatic. Although I didn't feel judgement towards the user "HiAnxiety", I felt that if I had posted something like that I would consider myself a loser. "Living vicariously through people with "f...

The early years of my life began with music. On Saturday mornings, I used to sit in front of an AIWA stereo player and admire all the buttons and small LEDs that would state the name of whatever was playing. It was a cool contraption which had multiple options for audio contraptions like the vinyl record, cassette tapes, and CD's. (visual of the stereo) Although I wanted to listen to vinyl records, the needle in that part of the player was broken. Sometimes, I would lift the plastic cover just...

Introduction I will preface this by saying that I have not yet finished the novel and some might deem this an injustice to evaluate and form judgements about characters before knowing their end. Islamically speaking, we are judged by Allah according to how we turn out to be by the end of our lives as known in the hadith: "...By the One, other than Whom there is no deity, verily one of you performs the actions of the people of Paradise until there is but an arms length between him and it, and t...

This post is in response to a video by Veritasium "The Man Who Almost Broke Math (And Himself...)" Having passed trigonometry by one point after failing twice and being sent to summer school, it might be understandable why I decided years ago to lock my enthusiasm for mathematics in a glass jar - sealed, covered with a dark cloth, and hidden in an abandoned storage room in an isolated village known as отказ (failure). It takes about 2-10 days for homemade pickles to be properly fermented depe...