The notion that you grow out of being a child is a misunderstanding. A healthy individual does not “grow out of” their childhood, but instead everything that comes after childhood is an addition to themself that they must integrate as one. One collectively adds onto themself, rather than changing throughout the years. “Change” is natural,…

Whether you believe in a higher power, cosmic randomness, or something in between, there’s a collective understanding that we did not choose our bodies under our own volition. None of us chose our race, culture, or birthplace. Despite this, people often derive their sense of community and identity from these (dare I say) superficial, chance…

So many rules and labels exist to ease our minds. We build and believe in systems and categories to comfort us amidst the uncertainty in this world. Yet when you look just past the surface, we find that so many of them are arbitrary, even borderline nonsensical. We search for answers in life. The fewer…