Excerpts from a Prolific Thinker

Our life on social media takes increasing space and progressively overtakes the reality of our being. That could be the underlying message of Stromae’s famous blue bird video clip. From an entertainment platform or means of communication, social media has progressively earned more and more influence on our lives and further, on our beings. Nowadays, the influence of social media on the formation of one's Identity is an area of research and analysis that many experts venture in. Social (and not only human) beings have come to internalize and accept the fate that they are bound to external forces in the process of building their behaviors, sometimes shutting down the outcry of their inner character, if ever available to them, that they fear would not fit what constitutes Society. A conception that we can witness, practically, through the common use of social media today. Human beings have been social from the very moment they were, but modernity bringing its own f...

Diving. Deep.  As deep as explorers eager to discover what lies within. Within the deep seas, those that impress and scare by their outstanding calmness. Or is it that their movement is so vast that it is unnoticeable to the explorer that ventures in their midst. Diving.  To discover or be uncovered in front of this giant, Self. Uncovered, yet undercover, where the mind becomes a refuge. The magnificence of the black moving yet unmoved reality that lies within. Or is it a foundation. Abysmal lifeform, dwelling as deep as the deepest oceanic trench. Almost 11,000 meters below the surface, the Mariana Trench reminds us that, just like our mind, what one could consider a hostile environment can prove a fertile soil for particular lifeform. Diving.  Acknowledging and naming the assumptions that are yet to be understood, and thus giving them a life. Where fears, doubts, anxieties, become part of a known reality and cease to have their mystical handle on our real...