Category: Life as code

  • Preparing for adversity

    I grew up in a world where expecting the worst and working toward the best was a way of life, the way. In this world you would expect nothing and when life delivered nothing you’d be ok with that, life didn’t owe you a dime. That life created resilience and composure, it made me inherently…

  • Memento mori

    I thought I would meet a cruel, painful end, and while I went through all my tests and mentally prepared for surgery I realised I was fine with it. I didn’t want to die, for who would? But I was OK. I did not fear it, I feared for my loved ones, but I did…

  • Amor fati

    That one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backwards, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it….but love it. Friedrich Nietzsche