On the surface it looked like criticism but upon digging just a little deeper it was easy to see fear pulling the strings desperately trying to control everything to avoid the dreaded nightmare become a reality

They say the best way to trap a monkey is to bury a jar into the ground, face up.Then find a piece of fruit that just about fits into the jar.That way the monkey's hand, with the fruit, will be too big to get out of the jar, and so the monkey is trapped.That is, … Continue reading Fruit traps →

The four teenage boys on the street corner are dressed identical. They are all wearing black hoodies, with black tracksuit pants, and black trainers. Funnily enough each one of them have thought about wearing a white/red hoodie to their crew hang outs. But it's only a fleeting notion. The overwhelming priority of conformity swiftly squashes … Continue reading Four boys dressed in black →

If you think you're repeating the same day over and over again it gets depressing. At least that's what the underlying message looks like in Groundhog Day and The Edge of Tomorrow. The routine and predictability take a toll on the main character's mental health and they suffer because of it. Their salvation appears to … Continue reading Shunning routine →

The ambitious could find an opportunity for growth in the most mundane of tasks. The pessimist writes it off as just another day. Use your confirmation bias wisely.

It's not socializing that is exhausting. It's the acting that's draining.It's great craic being with your best friend.It's the constant hiding of your true self around people you aren't entirely comfortable with that is fatiguing.

I posit that we can measure the thought put into a meeting's attendee list by the number of people who don't talk on that call.

Pain unfortunately is inevitable. But not all pain is equal and we get to choose our pain! So, would you rather the pain of feeling stupid while learning something new or the pain of feeling like you are deteriorating? Would you choose the pain of a job hunt or the pain of unemployment? The pain … Continue reading Inevitable pain →

Dear urinal user #63029,We have investigated case DF569V and arrived at the following evaluation.Granted, the unwritten rules of urinal use are widely known and it hardly seems necessary to repeat them but we shall do so here anyway for comprehensive context:You always leave at least a one urinal gap or in the case of pee … Continue reading urinal user 63029 →

"I'll come on the condition that I will bail if I can find anything better to do in the meantime."That's not what they said but that's what their actions told us.Such a dynamic puts an awful pressure on an individual to be exciting all the time and it speaks volumes of a flaky individual.Because let's … Continue reading Chasing excitement →