a forgotten nook
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The Place We Forgot
One of the apartment buildings towering above the playground, perched on a small paved hill, had its entrance doors ajar. The shadowy belly of this mammoth object did not seem inviting, but it did not give cause for fright either. Immobile and perfectly at rest in the surrounding shade from the canopy above it, this corner of the world seemed almost immaterial, closer to a photograph or a painting. I decided to walk inside in an effort that struck me as strange; things just happened, even though the preceding moments were entirely absent in thought and motivation.
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Beauty; Of That Which Divides and Distinguishes
Consider the modernist ego extricated from the legacy of religion and myth. The knowledge of the inner-workings of the human brain allowed for mechanistic explications of the human psyche, such that the hitherto formidable pains and yearnings could be defanged and categorized as mere mental deviations of a state-regulating, unassuming chemical pulley, constructed by the process of natural selection to ensure competitive advantage — one which Man is unable to efficiently zoom out of and feel, rather than only become cognizant of it. The difficulty in attaining awareness of the imperfections in our ability to perceive the relative protractedness of the evolutionary step in which we find ourselves in, leads us to perhaps ascribe more meaning to it than it should merit when assessing the abstract concepts of meaning.
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Starchild
Growing up, as a chubby young adolescent from nowhere and nowhen, a social recluse with little confidence and an abundance of imagination, the idea of transcending the human form took hold of me in a very real way. What my developing rational mind could intuit as being unattainable, my ego yearned to cultivate.
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Diablo and the Quintessential Elements in Human Pursuit of Satisfaction
Something about video games has always felt a little off to me. This uneasiness has had a tendency to manifest itself in my mind most readily in the moments of great self-doubt as a loss of motivation for continuing to play the title I am currently mainly focusing on, or more severely, a more overarching sentiment regarding all of gaming.
A Forgotten Nook 