Category: Chronicles of Absurdia
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On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his prophetic “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech. He was a man staring down the barrel of systemic, violent oppression, fully aware that his life was in imminent danger. In that speech, he said, “Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” …
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We all love a good villain. After all, it’s infinitely easier to point a self-righteous finger at the street magicians, the grinning politicians, and the hyper-filtered influencers peddling their shiny novelties than it is to look at ourselves in the mirror and see more than a bit of them in ourselves. But the uncomfortable, foundational…
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For over a decade, my peers and I navigated the right-angle corridors of Academia, trying to prepare for life beyond them. About halfway through, I recognized that schools often function more like a maze than a clear path to adulthood. The maps we draw in our younger years are frequently incomplete, and the guidance we…
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As Charles Schulz once said, “Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” We’re all equipped with potential, yet most of us coast along, our metaphorical legs doing the bare minimum while we let life roll downhill. Life’s too short to live as if we have all the time…
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As a very young child watching Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, a little green puppet named Yoda turned my world upside down as he told Luke Skywalker: “You must unlearn what you have learned.” Of course, being that young, it took me many years to appreciate this important wisdom. Yet this little cryptic nugget…