malbie

malbie

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Poet and Creative Writer

19 Jul, 26

The thing is that persistent incompetence doesn't merely produce poor outcomes. It will eventually reshape public expectations and thereby making mediocrity appear normal while diminishing people's ability or willingness to demand better. It dulls them as it creates dysfunction.

19 Jul, 26

2 Corinthians 13:5 (KJV)
“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.”

17 Jul, 26

“Intentions and emotions often conflict. Desire can fully overpower any form of conviction you have and that is why a belief that has never been emotionally tested can feel stronger than it actually is.” - Gloria Elendu

17 Jul, 26

Don't make excuses for adults. They know exactly what they're doing and why they're doing it.

13 Jul, 26

Our environment shapes perception, perception shapes possibility, and possibility shapes the life we build. A change of environment can expand our sense of what is achievable, but it is not the only path to transformation. By choosing what influences our minds, we can reshape our perception, broaden our vision of possibility, and achieve profound change—even while remaining in the very environment others mistake for a limitation.

12 Jul, 26

I want to add friends. Where do I find them?

11 Jul, 26

Why do people feel the need to say, “I beg to differ”? Just differ. It's your opinion and you're entitled to it and even if you beg, if I disagree with it, the begging won't have mattered.

10 Jul, 26

When hard work denies you what talent effortlessly offers, you start to despise the rewards of talent.

09 Jul, 26

Did you know that familiarity always dulls appreciation? Quite often, our mind adopts the habit of recognizing the value of life's blessings only after we encounter their absence. But the truth is, genuine gratitude should be the discipline of appreciating what is present without waiting for its opposite to remind us of its worth.

09 Jul, 26 (E)

Art mirrors the limitlessness of imagination. In essence, art reflects the infinite possibilities of human imagination, giving form to ideas unconstrained by reality.

08 Jul, 26

Many of life's challenges become overwhelming because hopelessness convinces us they are permanent and inescapable. Hope does not always remove the burden, but it changes our perception of it, making endurance possible and restoring the will to persevere.

06 Jul, 26

People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

04 Jul, 26

Human beings are, by nature, social creatures. We weren't designed to exist in isolation, detached from one another despite our differences in race, ethnicity, culture, or any other demographic distinction. Yet one of the greatest obstacles to meaningful human connection is our tendency to magnify one another's flaws.

Ironically, we readily acknowledge that none is perfect. We admit that human flaws are thus inevitable and that many can be corrected, refined, or simply tolerated. However, when it comes to building relationships, we often treat imperfections as a disqualifying condition. We suddenly put emphasis on the faults we identify in others, magnifying them beyond proportion, and using them as the basis for deciding who is worthy of our company and who isn't.

Whether consciously or not, in so doing, we deny others the grace that allows them to grow, change, and mature beyond their present flaws.

Now, beneath this disposition lies a deeper deficiency: the absence of love.

03 Jul, 26

Life is full of ironies, but few are as humiliating as self-bias. It reveals itself in countless ways, most commonly in our expectation to receive what we ourselves refuse to give. We demand to be rewarded with the very virtues we withhold, insisting on the benefits of reciprocity while deliberately neglecting our own obligations. Such is the contradiction of human selfishness: we desire a transaction in which only one party pays the price.

Perhaps nothing distorts judgement more than a deficiency of love. Selfishness strips us of fairness because it narrows our moral vision until our own interests become the only ones that matter. We measure justice by what serves us, not by what is right. In that state, we are willing to profit at the expense of others, scarcely concerned by the wounds we inflict, so long as our demands are met. The tragedy is not merely the harm we cause, but the astonishing absence of self-awareness with which we justify it.

03 Jul, 26

“Many get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it.” – David Marcus

01 Jul, 26

Friedrich Nietzsche — 'The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.'

01 Jul, 26

The system is so solid that anyone who enters it hoping to change it from within becomes inconsequential in that regard and only becomes consequential when propagating its ideals and agenda. That's why none within it should surprise you; they’re conscious conduits of its ideals.

30 Jun, 26 (E)

If someone said you look ugly with your purple hair. You most likely wouldn't care because you don't have purple hair. If they said you suck, you'd believe it because you don't think you're wholly good. Perhaps, you suck to a degree. If they asked whether you think your parents suck, you may argue in disagreement. But if they asked whether your parents are wholly good, you'd still disagree because they have flaws you may be aware of.

It's fascinating how we tend to judge ourselves harshly yet easily extend grace to anyone but ourselves. With this bias, we rob ourselves of the very mercies we need to live a life free from internalizing beliefs others have about us.

Briefly put, our capacity for grace is often directed outward, while our capacity for judgment is directed inward. We often tend to instinctively grant others the grace of being imperfect without being worthless, yet we often refuse to grant ourselves that same grace by allowing external opinions to define our self-worth.

28 Jun, 26

Never forget the culprit, the accomplice, and the praise singer. Oppression is seldom sustained by the tyrant alone; it endures through the hands that enable it and the voices that glorify it. The one who commits the injustice, the one who permits it, and the one who celebrates it are bound by the same moral burden.

27 Jun, 26

Sacrifice that makes you feel unworthy without it is not noble.

25 Jun, 26

Football, beyond technicalities, is a game of great emotional investment, especially amongst the fans. Emotions may be sincere but can be sincerely wrong. Beyond all that, the most telling part of fandoms is the manner of social fabric society wears, where biases are selectively applied for desired tribal cohesion and dismissible adhesion. The hardcore tribes that have been created over time often apply generic standards consistently but only within their own group. Outside it, the same standards become negotiable.

Amongst the fans, football is not a game of principles since they only apply when they produce outcomes fans already prefer.

25 Jun, 26

“The way that the world is functioning right now, everything feels so much more transactional. Nobody wants to invest time and effort and love into someone that might hurt them eventually, but I think that's a cop out. The experience of love is more important than the possibility of loss. It is an honour and a privilege to be invited to sit in the muck with someone. That person, when they're asking for help, that inconvenience that is it causing you is not the inconvenience that you think it is. It's supposed to feel like an honour and a privilege to be able to sit with someone who, at their most vulnerable state trusts you enough with that part of themselves to invite you in.” - Soukaina

23 Jun, 26

In this content-savvy era, people are looking to do, say and write the most self-deprecating things just for a trend and a payout.

22 Jun, 26

One of the most important aspects of any engagement is recognizing the cues that signal a change in tide.

21 Apr, 26

It's funny how much attachments can rob us of sanity and basic common sense.

21 Mar, 26

“In our quest to find the relationship between consciousness and reality we must necessarily pose the question why anything exists at all, instead of there simply being nothing.

Nothing can exist for you that does not have a specific effect upon you. And without having an effect upon someone else, neither can it exist for them. Turn your back towards any object you previously had in view and what happens? That’s right, the object simply disappears! Actually, the object remains in existence, but for you it becomes non-existent at that moment.

Now, that is true on the physical level of existence as well as on the spiritual plane, your consciousness being the knob of attunement.

We know that whatever we seek to comprehend reaches us physically through the five senses – sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste. And that which is perceived is that which is real – to us.”

21 Feb, 26

The belief in religious pluralism is the first step toward absconding from truth as there can only be one arbiter of truth.

21 Jan, 26

It's fascinating how much we can accomplish is we dared to challenge every risk, every voice screaming impossible, with every resource available and by pushing against the lack of concrete belief. That was how cantalivers, bridges, planes and every magnificent creation came to be.

21 Dec, 25

The folly of many “believers” is the redundant embrace of religious syncretism.

I can’t imagine but I guess it goes back to them perceiving the Bible as being contradictory and insufficient, which it obviously isn’t, and so they adopt whatever ‘truths’ traditional religions and agnosticism avail.

Sometimes, I think it’s out of the need to fit into the status quo where religious fanaticism is abhorred.

21 Dec, 25

The mind is a powerful place.