Category: Editorial
Why Nothing Feels Real Anymore: the strange experience nobody talks about
Why nothing feels real anymore is not a question most people ask out loud. They sit with it. They notice it at odd moments. On a Tuesday evening doing something ordinary. In a conversation that sounds like a conversation they are having but does not quite feel like one. Looking at their own hands and…
What we inherit from our parents (it is more than you think)
What we inherit from our parents is not just their eyes or their temper. It is their unfinished business. The anxiety that arrives before anything has gone wrong. The specific way certain silences feel threatening. The flinch at raised voices in another room. The need to achieve that does not feel like ambition but like…
Meaning of home: when home stops being a place
Meaning of home changes. Nobody warns you when it happens, or that it will happen more than once. The first time it happens quietly. You go back to where you grew up and something is off. The streets are the same. The smell of the kitchen is the same. But you are sitting at a…
Why humans need to explore: the psychology behind every big ambition
The psychology of exploration is not a niche academic subject. It is the study of a drive so fundamental to the human brain that neuroscientists can trace it to the same dopaminergic systems that regulate hunger and reproduction. It is older than language, older than civilisation, older than any of the specific things human beings…
Why south asian parents don’t say I love you
Why South Asian parents don’t say I love you is one of those questions that gets asked in hushed tones, usually between friends who grew up in the same kind of house, usually after a few drinks, usually with a laugh that has something else underneath it. You know the house. The one where love…
Baby monkey videos psychology: why we watch
This article contains descriptions of animal cruelty. Nothing graphic is detailed, but the subject matter is disturbing. It is written not to sensationalise but to understand a phenomenon that psychology and criminology researchers say we urgently need to talk about. The psychology behind baby monkey videos reveals something uncomfortable about how human beings behave online.…
The anxiety of being replaceable
The fear of being replaced at work rarely announces itself dramatically. You did not see a headline that triggered it. It arrived more quietly than that. A tool at work that handles something you used to handle. A meeting where someone younger spoke with a confidence that reminded you of yourself, but faster and with…
Everyone is building a backup plan
The backup plan economy did not appear overnight. At some point in the last few years, the conversation changed. It used to be that having a side project was a personality trait. Something specific to a certain type of ambitious, restless person who could not switch off. You knew a few of them. They were…
The quiet resentment toward successful friends
Jealousy toward successful friends rarely announces itself loudly. Your friend got the thing. The promotion, the offer, the relationship, the apartment, the opportunity that finally landed after years of trying. It is genuinely good news. You know this. You respond warmly, because you mean it, mostly. But later, alone, a feeling arrives that you did…
Why does everyone suddenly want to move abroad?
Why everyone wants to move abroad in 2026? It feels like the question of the moment. Someone you know has left. Maybe it was a colleague who relocated to Lisbon. A cousin who packed up for Canada. A university friend who now posts photographs from a balcony in Medellín, captioned with something vague about finally…
