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Holding perseverance and gentleness in the same hands. I see you, a weary traveller. Here's your space to rest, reflect, and gather what you need to keep going.
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Desiderata, a banquet, and endless searching (opens the original)
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If you asked me my favourite poem, my answer would be Desiderata.I came across this ages ago, and my memory of it was rekindled during the pandemic. Blame Tom Hiddleston for his voice (to be honest, I listened to many poetry readings during that lockdown era, a decision/habit that eventually leaked into my novels).If you haven’t read it, please have a look at it. Each line speaks to my soul, I hope it does yours, too.There’s this quote from the Tian Guan Ci Fu (TGCF) novel,There’s no b
Inability to let go, transmigration, and immortality (opens the original)
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Why do we love to suffer?Inability to let go, in my life, is the root of all suffering.We tend to clutch at something that is fated to drift away, withholding our forward movement to something destined for the future.I was once warned by an old friend, many, many years ago, when I was still dating someone. That person I dated was so different from me, like heaven and earth, and just at one look, everyone could see we were not fated to be.But I was neck-deep in limerence, a mental illness I can s
Family. Home. Loss. (opens the original)
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Of all the losses that I have been through in thirty-seven years of my life, nothing has prepared me for the startling loss of a childhood home. To be precise, the loss of my childhood memories that were anchored in my childhood home.Losing a childhood home feels like losing a relative while you’re thousands of miles away and they get buried before you’re even visiting.You know the drill. The last time I saw this person …Death is just the final boss of loss, with how it sneaks around and snatche
Acedia: The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak (opens the original)
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From my previous reflection on acedia, we learned that acedia does not like to sit still in the present moment. It constantly searches for the familiarity of memories and finds comfort in it. It also feels discomfort with the gap between the ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’, despising the present state but not doing anything for the future state. Moreover, it adopts a nihilistic and atheistic view that everything is meaningless.In fact, acedia is quite tricky to quash because it feeds on indecisiveness and c
Acedia and fondness for nostalgia (opens the original)
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A lesson still haunts me to this day. It’s what Fr Mike Schmitz says in one of the Bible in a Year podcasts, about the fondness for nostalgia. I’m paraphrasing his saying that we are drawn to find comfort in recollecting the past because it’s certain - we know what has happened, we are familiar with the story.I noticed I’ve been in a nostalgic mode since the rainy weather kicked in where I live. Rain has such a special influence over me. I feel more mellow but cocooned. Even when I’m outside, sa
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