The Potato Perception

Sometimes, you'll be conflicted with perennial thoughts of nihilism. You'd fee blue and desolated. You'd think there's no meaning to life and that bittersweet notion of existential crisis would start growing up on you. Speculations like these might seem persuasive and convincing enough for you to excuse yourself from your work and render you unproductive. Hypothesizing that everything is meaningless and nothing you do matters would throw you into a loop which culminates your contumelious futility.  At times like these, what you need is NOT to think about how insignificant your subsistence is, but to think about how impactful your being can be. How the course of history could have changed dramatically from a minor tweak in the puny decisions that were taken long ago. How every little detail determines the fate of the entire world altogether. What you need is an introspection of the boundless beauty of the butterfly effect. For you are the ripple in still water that would...

Hey, how's home? How're you holding up? How's the quarantine working out for you? It's been a while since the global pandemic COVID-19 took its toll and turned the world upside down. We're all forced to stay home for that's our safest bet to fight against this abysmal threat. Nations are in indefinite lockdowns and economies are taking a nosedive, streets are empty, cities are closed, and people are running out of patience. On the bright side, nature's blooming once again, animals are back in their revitalized habitats, the atmosphere is cleaner than ever, water is transparent again, and the night sky lights up like Christmas. It's  like Earth needed this long due break, and it's finally smiling.  I think we all should take a moment and appreciate this. I hope you're having a good time with your family, maybe that's what we all needed the most.⠀ It'll all be over soon, I promise. We'll get over it together. And the world wo...