Living with Tammy

Books, games, movies, series, these things lie to us, the create this internal world of “if I do something well this time, if I train really hard this time, then I shall be the best!”. And it is by far the biggest lie children grow up with, and it has ruined the way adults look at the world more than most. The thing about failure is that you have to do it, you have to fail, we look at history and success stories as these great singular achievements. When in reality they were anything but that, they were a series of spectacular, small, larger, insignificant, failures. You have to fail, to know what not to do, you have to fail. The best way to explain this is through looking at exams, all the way back at school level. If you walk into an exam and you did nothing but still barely pass that feels good. But you learned nothing from this experience, all you learned was you could do nothing and still pass. But, if you start to study, and you get maybe 1% more on that exam, barely passin...

    T hese shorts are written as practices in writing and all are unedited and are not proofread.      Have you ever sat down and thought about the last ten, twenty, thirty, conversations you have had with friends and family? Have you then also come to the realization that apart from a few surface level conversations you never really talked about what interests you, or even what you spend your days doing? To be honest, I love talking about the country, politics, world events, and everything else we all know we talk about. But I have also come to the realization that every conversation I have usually runs dry because that which interests me is not a real topic of discussion. Instead, I must divert back to other topics, “How was the flight?”, “Did you do something new?”, “Oh, yeah, I’ve heard about that American TV show”. I spend almost no time whatsoever doing any of these, instead I wile away my time, playing games, reading articles, or watching anime. A...