According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, gluttony is defined as: 1: excess in eating or drinking 2: greedy or excessive indulgence The first definition is the…
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Pan On: Tertiary Education
I’m university-educated and feel ineffably grateful for being so. Sans coming from a well-off family, I’m fully aware that I’d be significantly worse off had…
Leave a CommentPan On: Reviews
Reviews are like hitting a ping pong ball into a net and asking the net how the ball wishes to proceed. Anyone claiming something like…
Leave a CommentPan On: What Happened to Ambient Rain?
Rain falls against a medley of greens and blue, the foliage beyond the open window a dreamy ecosystem undreaming itself. Aphex Twin’s Stone in Focus…
Leave a CommentPan On: Terrorism
We wake up, open our eyes, and take in the world. A moment later, we switch on our phones and start doomscrolling. Oh, what a…
Leave a CommentPan On: Existentialism (Chapter 1)
‘I start the car and drive away. Drive in no set direction… just go. This city is the foreign counterpart to where I grew up:…
Leave a CommentPan On: Park Life
I’m writing this with a pained abdomen, my self-inflicted misfortune the result of a late-night indulgence involving sticky sweet potato chips and an egg-and-hashbrown-filled steamed…
Leave a CommentPan On: Freedom from the Why
Who, what, when, where, why, how. You could chart the known universe with this question set. Every manner or matter of phenomena can be partly…
Leave a CommentPan On: How to Start, Write, and Edit a Novel
“How do you start, write, and edit a novel?”It’s a common question, and one that essentially answers itself: START. WRITE. EDIT. Still, because this process…
Leave a CommentPan On: Loving Easily
When unobstructed, love is easy to do and feel. Its existence drives us, and directing its course toward good is what we should all be…
Leave a CommentPan On: Having Kids
To do, or not to do? Millions ask this question daily, contemplating whether to bring more humans into the world. It’s scary to read how…
Leave a CommentPan On: SUVs
Welcome to expletive city. You know what I mean. When some little man or fake-nailed tentacular-eyelashed housewife tears across traffic like they own the road,…
Leave a CommentPan On: Joy
The world is a complicated place. This is most evident in an urban environment, where myriad lives, thoughts, contemplations, and neuroses coexist. From my side,…
Leave a CommentPan On: Beyond Giving a Proverbial Donk
In a dark, vile, sick world, where does solace lie? Does it sew itself in the fabric of transcendental becoming, the depths of hedonistic indulgence,…
Leave a CommentPan On: The Link between Advertising and Political Correctness
Man, I’m sick of adverts. Everywhere I go, it’s impossible to escape their omnipresent gaze. Even in the smallest, darkest spaces, you cannot help avoid…
Leave a CommentPan On: Nostalgia
What is Nostalgia? A longing for the past? Commentary to defer the future’s inherent urgency? A way to validate the sum of our bad choices?…
Leave a CommentPan On: Ghosteen
Grief is a patient teacher. It accepts feelings the same way paper cradles a writer’s words. It commiserates lightly and celebrates equally. It’s unrelentingly there,…
Leave a CommentPan On: The Unfair Chronicalia
If there is one thing you should teach your kids, it’s that life is unfair. If they grow up with a psychological template celebrating this…
Leave a CommentPan On: Some Like It Real
What do you LIKE? Do you LIKE your uniqueness? Do you LIKE your individuality? Do you LIKE your uncanny ability to think differently about subjects…
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