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  Ashamed – How Can We Deal With This?
    Map Of Emotion

    Ashamed – How Can We Deal With This?

    January 14, 2021October 28, 2024
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    Glorification and shame are two sides of the same coin. They allow us to distance ourselves from these uncomfortable feelings & make them everyone else’s problem.

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  A Smoking Gun
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    A Smoking Gun

    January 13, 2021August 14, 2023
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    Can we hate people for being who they are? It can be hard watching people remain their worst selves when you can see their highest potential. It’s difficult finding pettiness, rage, envy, weakness in those you know to be wise, strong, sensitive. Weaponising emotion is to turn something beautiful into a smoking gun.

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  Happy Isn’t Getting It All
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    Happy Isn’t Getting It All

    January 12, 2021February 25, 2025
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    What does being happy have to do with getting what you want?

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  Healing A Heart
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    Healing A Heart

    January 11, 2021April 23, 2023
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    Stop trying to heal people hoping that they will love you for it. That is not how healing works.

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  Sailing The Age Bar
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    Sailing The Age Bar

    January 10, 2021February 25, 2025
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    I watched @netflix_in #FabulousLives. I loved Neelam as a kid & even more now. At a self-confessed 50, she exudes the understated confidence that comes from riding life’s ups & downs. But there’s also a vulnerability, the hesitation about her looks, the uncertainty of comeback roles. Unlike the brittle tantrums…

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  All The World’s A Stage
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    All The World’s A Stage

    January 10, 2021April 23, 2023
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    Are we too in love with the stories to appreciate the realities of life? The stage is a metaphor for our distancing.

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  Fierce Butterflies
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    Fierce Butterflies

    January 9, 2021February 25, 2025
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    People tell you who they are, in their reaction to your most honest self.

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  Pisces Moon
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    Pisces Moon

    January 9, 2021September 17, 2023
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    How to explain to people who are built of concrete thoughts or sand dune ideas or helium balloons what it is to see the Pisces Moon?

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  Enthusiastic Yes
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    Enthusiastic Yes

    January 8, 2021February 25, 2025
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    Desire is a powerful, intoxicating force. We can easily let ourselves be blinded by what we want. We assume we know better, are quicker at making decisions or are righteous in what we want. Oh yes, I know what we want can come ratified by logic, social approval, even wisdom….

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  New Breath, New Life
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    New Breath, New Life

    January 8, 2021October 26, 2024
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    What if the choice of good and evil is actually about choosing healing over pain?

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  • IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “@Harshaman: What a delightful set of throwbacks it was to receive this comment! First, to the days when one would…”
  • Harshaman on The Feels This Week: A Curated Life Is A Considered One: “Which for me means, looking back at the past with a discerning and curatorial eye I had been thinking about…”
  • Neha Kapoor on Unlikeable Women: It’s Okay To Dislike Her, But Respect Her: “You always have such good book recommendations!”
  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”

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