The Northern 📍

  Another Year Gone.      Another year gone, and what do I have to show for it? What do I have now, that I did not have 365 days ago?      I’d love to sit here, and list all my accomplishments. I’d love to give myself a huge pat on the back, congratulating my every single move. Yet, as it is so often, reality is much more disappointing than it seems.      Sitting back and recognizing that you’ve made progress, is not something to shake your fist about. However, at the end of the day, we all sit back and realize that we could have gone harder. We could have accomplished more. We could have dug a little deeper. That whatever it is we have today, is simply a reflection of the actions we took a year ago. I do not regret my actions .      I hold no ill will or remorse towards the decisions I made. In fact, I admire them. I admire the courage it took, to cast away all which weighed me down, in search of freedom. In search of mea...

  What Is Morality?      What is this set of rules which we are meant to operate upon? Does anybody have the actual guidelines which we are meant to follow? Is there an overall consensus based upon our agreement of reality? Or are we all just acting upon our own intentions, disguising our actions as something greater than our wants? I believe it was Nietzsche who said, morality had aesthetics .      He basically argued, that if you killed a cockroach, nobody would bat an eye- however, if you killed a butterfly, everybody would lose their mind. It’s hard to argue with that kind of logic. It’s difficult to say that he was wrong in his assessment. Throughout history, over and over again, our morality has truly depended on the aesthetics we observe, and which side of the fence we sit on. The constant grey-zone, between what is right and what is wrong.      Answering these questions is not something which can be discovered lightly. How can on...