Philosophical reflections on attention, presence, and mindful living in a distracted world. These essays explore the art of deep thinking, the value of apparent idleness, and the wisdom found in slowing down. For readers seeking thoughtful perspective amid life's acceleration.
Don’t let narrow seats narrow your thoughts
What geology and physics can teach us about our human nature
When someone tells me I need to “think outside the box,” I develop a sort of metaphysical hives. The same happens with “step out of your comfort zone.” The reaction intensifies when these pearls of wisdom come from people so comfortably settled in their own enormous boxes.
We’ve turned productivity into a religion and boredom into blasphemy. Even our vacations become performances of hyperactive rest. What if doing nothing isn’t laziness but the most radical act of resistance in an achievement-obsessed world?
We’ve turned pain into pathology and healing into a business plan. But what if our symptoms aren’t signs of brokenness, but clues that something larger is sick, and screaming to be overthrown?
Where certainty meets doubt, stillness contains movement, and effort undermines itself. The following fragments, now woven together, explore the fertile space between opposites – where our most profound insights emerge not from resolving contradictions but from dwelling within them.
