• Odd One Out

    Odd One Out

     Have you ever walked into a room and immediately felt that you’ve made a mistake coming there? Not that people don’t want you there but just some unsettling feeling that you don’t belong there that everyone else got a script that you never saw. Some people learn early how to be cool, how to accept…

  • The Trap of Modern Comfort: Important Lessons from Fight Club

     The World offers us endless ways to feel complete. Those ways include objects, routines, comforts, stability and reassurance. We don’t actually wake up wanting these things, we wake up wanting a feeling and we gradually, start looking for the said feeling in objects. Most of us don’t question the role these objects play in our…

  • When Thought becomes a Trap: A Canyon of the Mind

     We think all the time, whether we like it or don’t, it’s what we do, this is just who we are. Thinking is the mind searching, questioning, trying to make sense of things it sees. Our mind never goes quiet; it keeps on trying to understand. A thought is what’s left behind, after all that…

  • The Psychology of Raskolnikov: Crime & Punishment

    Raskolnikov, also known as Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is a former law student who lives in extreme poverty in St. Petersburg, but his misery is not financial its philosophical. He believes that humans are divided into two categories, the “ordinary men” and the “extraordinary men”. The ordinary men have very simple tasks, according to Raskolnikov, their…

  • From Suffering to Salvation

    The depths of human suffering are a mystery that has puzzled scholars, philosophers, and theologians for centuries. The human experience of suffering is a profound and complex issue. Suffering, oftentimes, arises from fundamental questions about human existence and reality. People often suffer from uncertainty and anxiety over things that are unknown. Tragic events and trauma…