Many of the goals that people pursue have less to do with the pursuit itself than with the pursuit as a means of externalizing a self-perception and aligning their own idealized self with the self defined and perceived by the world. Goals then become the sublimation of a desire not…
A person’s individuality is like an unfinished puzzle. But while some people have pieces aplenty and have managed to place them into a coherent order that has all the makings of an actual picture, others have only a few pieces scattered around or none at all—or what’s worse, the wrong…
On a Saturday night, while I sit typing away at a desk in a colorless white-walled bedroom, concealed in an apartment building next to the university where I’ve been finishing my two-year master’s degree in translation, I have reason to be excited. I am a schoolboy waiting for his favorite…
