Soul Shara

During the first week of March, I started feeling something different. Maybe it's the warmer weather. Maybe it was the fact that I started reading one of the best mangas of all time (and finished within one week). It was definitely the week where I started actually thinking and behaving a bit differently according to my core values and philosophical concepts that I found helpful when I use to be addicted to self-help YouTube videos.  Although, I no longer watch them because there comes a certain point where you have heard it all and you don't need to hear it anymore.  You just need to do it.  (...or read it in a book so it actually materializes in your consciousness instead of something you listen to so you are slightly distracted while doing something else you find boring (yes, I am guilty)). Momento Mori. It essentially means to remember that you will die. It is a concept prominent in Stoicism that I discovered 3 years ago - but never fully internalized. I t...

I like to think of boredom as food that is specifically catered to my brain. The more food that my brain eats, the stronger it becomes. Resilience builds and the capacity for critical thinking and creativity expands. Big corporations are scared of bored people. What do bored people do? At first there is silence and the urge to entertain oneself to run away from the uncomfortable clutch of consciousness. We have all heard of the study where people would rather shock themselves than stay in stillness, in nothingness, in silence. Big corporations have learned that keeping people entertained stops people from seeking out truth. What truth? Truth in the things that they sell, in the promises they make, and in the branding that adorns them. A bored person is a person that will soon realize the “truth”. They are a person that observes and concludes that buying less is more. They are a person that realizes that trends are just societal constructs used as tools to break into their wallets and ...