Take care of your investments
Without maintenance, things break, and even with care, they fail. By checking in regularly we can prevent being shocked by catastrophic failure, perhaps even avoid …
responsibility
Bids for Attention
Relationships bid for attention. A request demands a reaction: either share or dismiss. Some people become vampiric, needing you to sustain them. (And vice versa.) …
help hurts
The paradox of looking to others for help is that it creates hurt. Just as you must decide to help and change yourself, you must …
A culture of avoidance
If we lived in a society of radical responsibility (rather than explanatory, justified victimization) would responsibility lead to abusive tyranny, or a culture of vulnerability …
You did this to yourself, now enjoy it
Everything I complain about now, I wished to have at some point. The maintenance of all my fulfilled desires is a tiresome chore. Yet, if …
there is always clean up after a party
The price of excessive fun includes setup and execution, which is part of the fun. However, the actual cost is the sober responsibility of reordering …
self-made traps
Every problem I have is a self-made trap. When I work too much, I do not set the boundary: I dangerously conflate my ‘sense of …