When I open YouTube, Instagram, or any social media app - go to a book store, or mall, I am struck with the vague dread of similarity repeated ad nauseam. In a Backrooms-esque type of way, the majority of content or what the world seems to push as popular content…

I remember being quite emotionally disturbed as a young teenager, and at about 14, I can vividly recall a phone call with my dad in which I begged for answers. “How do people do it?” “Do what?” “All of this” I was facing merely standard woes of a teenager —…

As we all know, capitalism breeds innovation, and continues to provide us with ideas and solutions that continually better our lives, propel our society forward, and the like. Sliced bread, the wheel, and steam-powered engines spring to mind. I can’t even begin to describe how my life has been changed…

This is the story of a former stoner who quit smoking weed forever — and how it ruined a decade of my life. Before you run straight to the comments bashing me for my draconian views on drugs or boasting the benefits of a blunt, I urge you to hear…

Like many aspiring writers on Medium, I began with dollar signs in my eyes, and little to no other talents other than stringing random words together in the forms of sentences. I consumed articles about how to best market your content, I interacted, I wrote every day- stories I enjoyed…

Many people aspire to be a creator of some kind nowadays — whether they take the YouTube route of churning out perfect 10 minute and 30 second videos, or post their niche content to Instagram or better yet, TikTok. But lately, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend — the caricaturization of…

When I say vampire you say… Count Dracula! As much as I’d love to be rejuvenated back to life by some fresh, young, blood — we are unfortunately living only in the age of the metaphorical vampire (my apologies to Ann Rice enthusiasts). However this troubling phenomenon has been on…

Addiction is a particularly heavy topic of discussion. For years I skirted by on the revolving wheel of various addictions: drugs of all sorts, smoking, hyper-sexualized behaviors, shopping, eating, even the seemingly “harmless” caffeine (that’s a topic for another day…). You name it, and you can almost certainly bet I…

I often wonder how much of any given person’s activities, mannerisms, habits, and personality traits are quite purely performative. As I browse through an ocean of strikingly identical individuals, I can’t help but notice how everyone has found a magical ability to condense the entirety of their being into a…