Dear friend, Thank you for reading Uncanny Philosophy and following my thoughts and life throughout this time. I have returned home from my 2 weeks vacation trip in Europe. In my time over there, I got some opportunity to do some reflection and I managed to do some writing in the train while we moved from one country to another. It was a good break and writing on the train is quite a bonus...
Everyone has a constant in his or her life ; the constant is that very fundamental element that reminds the person of who he/she is, what the individual stands for, and it’s that constant that gives meaning to the individual’s whole being and existence. Think of the constant like the totem from the movie Inception, where the characters in the movie each need to develop a totem – a personalised...
We all find the routines of our lives to be quite ordinary, quite mundane and simply…quite boring. It feels like there is really nothing to look forward to in life, it’s as though we can predict the motions of the day without really much effort. And that’s when life becomes a routine – a chore, an idle, static space which gives no meaning to our existence. I am writing down all these...
Everything has a price in this life, including the choices we make. The choices we make in life come in different price ranges, some are big and some are small ; for some choices, you don’t pay the price until later on ; for some choices, the price is already waved for you because some kind soul has taken the brunt, and you go on in life without realizing it at all. In economics, there is this...
“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” – 1 Cor 13:7 You know, love is probably one of those things in life that as we grow older and as we mature in our age, it changes it’s meaning. And to find love’s definition, unfortunately we have a thousand and one definitions, and that’s scary, because…well whose...