"You don't believe in love?" she asked me. "I'm not getting into that right now. Ask me after Ramadan," I replied. We're friends, I think. We were sitting at a table surrounded by those we each consider friends. We're always friendly with each other, but I'm not sure if that rises to the level of…Read more What is Love?
Philosophy
Cognitive Dissonance
It's almost 2 am and I have my second LSAT-Flex in less than 12 hours. I have not studied since I took it the first time in October 2020. I am royally fucked on this attempt. And yet despite yearning to go to a top 10 law school to earn a position in a federal…Read more Cognitive Dissonance
Sad Song Soliloquy
I've been wasting my nights reading Rick Riordan novels since graduating college last week. I ought to be studying for the LSAT I'm taking in less than a month, applying for jobs left, right, and center, or doing any of the million minute things that have to be done around the house. Finally, I decided…Read more Sad Song Soliloquy
Metacognition
In elementary school, this was word I learned. My third grade teacher described it to us in seven-year-old terms: thinking about thinking. It's not a word I can recall seeing anywhere outside of the ELA classroom in my small Islamic school over ten years ago. And yet it's something I've engaged in increasingly as I've…Read more Metacognition
The Tragedy of Life
All life is tragic. Life cycles involve begetting, growing, ailing, and ending. Similar to the food chains we would draw in elementary school--the connection of grass to hawk, for example--each living thing has a linear pathway. A followed by B followed by C and so on. But because greater Life doesn't exist in a bubble,…Read more The Tragedy of Life
Falling Short
In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. I wanted to spend this holy month of Ramadan reading the English translation of the Quran and blogging my thoughts/conclusions on it. Instead, I've read only the Arabic text and played video games. I have an idealized conception of myself internally that is a virtuous, God-fearing,…Read more Falling Short
Happy Lies
Eudaimonia. Happiness. Fulfillment. Flourishing. Prosperity. Aristotle, despite the nonsensical lecture notes in which this concept arises, really whipped up a frenzy with this one. Dumbed down, he says that human beings desire happiness in life and then painstakingly breaks down the different definitions and means to those different ends and pretty much everything that could…Read more Happy Lies
Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game
I haven't written in a month. It's not that I haven't had cause to, nor the time not to. It's not that I've lost my yearning to write or my appetite to read. And yet such is the case; I never finished reading Republic and I'm only ten or so pages into Aristotle's Ethics. All the…Read more Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game
Self-Socratic Method
This evening I read Books II and III of Republic. It took me almost two hours with a two hour break in between books. Yeah, maybe not the most productive way of reading Plato, but that shit gets boring and drawn out like a mofo a LOT. I enjoyed it much more than, say, Alcibiades I, as the…Read more Self-Socratic Method
Ruminations of a Brown Redneck 