Need? Really?
We all tend to do it – overuse the word “need”.
Our needs are few. Safe drinking water. Adequate food. Shelter from the elements. Those things that are absolutely essential. The term “essential need” is a tautology – like the Department of Redundancy Department, or an unmarried bachelor because needs are, by definition, essential.
A bigger TV [...]
Get out of that box!
It’s very easy to deny yourself something for perfectly valid reasons, then simply put the whole idea aside, and never revisit it. Often, if you think around the problem space a bit, you might be able to come up with a way to get what you want without the downsides.
In our case, we live in [...]
A year without fiction
I’m a reader. Since childhood, reading has been my main recreational activity. Dorky as it is, for years I’ve listed my main hobby as ‘reading’. I love the process, the act of mere words causing a fully immersive movie to appear in my imagination. My library (which is mostly in storage these days) is [...]
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