Resilience
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Melanie’s Diptych (Verses of Depression and Paranoia)
I In the cradle of post-war reverie, Parents wove with strands of golden hope. Economy, that nourishing bosom, Nursed dreams too audacious to tether or cope. Doubts and fears from epochs past, Dissolved in the nectar of newfound euphoria. Growth, a hymn chanted by seraphic voices, Lit the way to a future’s radiant utopia. Technology’s… Continue reading
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The Myth of Confidence: Examining the Forgotten Virtue of Courage through Psychoanalytic Lenses
“The enduring allure of Hamlet’s personal travails—his waning confidence over courage and his emotionality overpowering his rationality—have captured the hearts and minds of audiences for generations. However, to truly appreciate the relationship between confidence and courage in the broadest sense, one might question whether, in recent years, confidence has taken a more prominent position, overshadowing… Continue reading
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Mending
by Paul Wadey, 17 October 2023 In the mind’s hidden chamber, love’s relic resides, A porcelain heart, fractured beneath sable tides. Deceive not yourself; every cardiac form bears a flaw, Weathered by love, irreversible as natural law. What, you ask, is the purpose of this agony? A terminus, or the advent of an alternate symphony?… Continue reading
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