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The rest is just noise....

Seeing this quote made me feel kinda like a "poser". While I am certainly familiar with the towering intellectual and philosophical legacy Mr. Huxley left behind, I've yet to fully digest the majority of his life's written work. I've come to know him mainly through a series of "social media ready" quotes, but trust, there is much more to the mind of the man behind those omnipresent succinct quips. One particular description of a young Aldous felt as though it could have been just as easily ascribed to me: he is someone who "frequently contemplated the strangeness of things." I...

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new" -Socrates

Apr 13, 2022 “Whaddya think, I’m an idiot?”, I snickered. “No, you’re certainly not an idiot. An asshole, yes. But not an idiot, by any stretch.” he replied. I was 20 years old, freshly dropped out of college, and certain I had all of the world’s answers.  And standing in front of me was a kid about thirty pounds lighter and a few inches shorter than me, calling me out, right to my face, with a completely unimpressed expression on his face as I turned to confront him.   As I’m sure you understand, during a male’s teenage years (and a...