Dealing with jealousy
In my teens, I realized I was a jealous person and I caught on to it quick. I knew it was something I didn’t want to be and was ashamed of. I wanted to be truly joyful when I heard of others doing well, I didn’t want to automatically think back to my situation when…
Our nuanced harmonies
Decisions we make are very rarely straightforward. My younger self did not see the hidden nuances in people’s stories and painted all canvases around me one colour. I believed that a specific action meant the same thing in every context and every word carried the same meaning in every sentence. I understood each decision as…
Racial reconciliation vs racial healing
I joined a Zoom meeting about two weeks post the George Floyd video resurfacing. This meeting surrounded the topic of racial reconciliation versus racial healing. Our communities have been speaking recently about the racial reconciliation. Reconciliation is “the action of making one view or belief compatible with another”. Bringing it into a racial context, it…
People can change and we can allow our perceptions of them to change as well
Accepting that people are dynamic beings has allowed me to understand them as they are. My psychometrics professor repeatedly told us that there is only one predictor we have for future behaviour is past behaviour. And, he repeatedly reminded us that this predictor is bullshit. Why? Because past behaviour does not take into account the…
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