Within mainstream culture and social media, these days, being labeled “normal” comes with a negative connotation. Weirdness and difference are seen more positively now than probably any time in the past. I attribute this to the fundamental individualism that dominates Western thought and the United States. However, this trend in…

Practical uncertainty On one hand, cognitively, a human goes through reality processing their enormous data input with the necessary tools of generalizations, assumptions, schemas, and stereotypes. On the other hand, over-doing any of these lead to mischaracterization, de-individualization, and inaccuracy. Practical uncertainty is the idea of approaching a person, from a population…

In my previous article, I discussed my view on the maturity journey that one goes through in terms of sexual relations. However, a point of consideration is that people have sex because it “feels good.” That emotion is most poignantly captured in the concept of hedonism. …

Many stances exist for the role sexual relations should play in our lives and in society at large. These reasonings are an interplay of a complex web of political factors, cultural norms, personal experience, value-based systems, religion, and more. Individuals come to express these in different ways from open hedonism…

Prompt: Vestigiality refers to genetically determined structures or attributes that have apparently lost most or all of their ancestral function, but have been retained during the process of evolution. In humans, for instance, the appendix is thought to be a vestigial structure. …

With my brain now primed to look for macro-sociological trends, I couldn’t help but notice some elements of the Grand Ole Opry, country music’s crowning achievement show. So here are some of my thoughts in no particular coherent structure or argument. Generally in the past six years, the South has…

“Quick, Vinc is about to swim breaststroke,” one of my eight-and-unders yells to her friends as they race to the side of the pool. Snapping on my silicone swim cap, I glance up to see most of the team gathering around the pool. The rest of the coaches and my…

Career “Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job — not a calling.” — Dr. Paul Kalanithi “Had I been more religious in my youth, I might have become a pastor, for it was the pastoral role I’d sought” — Dr. Paul Kalanithi Character “Moral speculation was puny compared to moral…

One of the lynchpin moments of love is actually finding someone. However, the common sentiment is that this is the hardest part of love. This friction between desire and execution is displayed in people in different ways. There are people who feel defeated because they feel like no girl or…