Dear world. I have taken a vow of silence. No, that's not entirely correct. I should have said "it seems I have nothing to say". I sit back and watch the goings on in the world. No, that's not correct either. I should have said "I have chosen to listen to certain voices", and these voices tell me terrible, unspeakable things. Unspeakab...

Isn't it telling that I don't even need to say where I am writing from for you to nod your head in agreement? Shit's on fire, as the saying goes, and it's on fire everywhere. What was supposed to be an annual vacation was in fact an agonising pause in time to consider the truly fucked state we're in. What's the worst part, I ask? The f...

Does the act of giving something a name determine its being in the universe? I give something a shape in my mind, a symbol of it forms. Is this symbol accessible only to me, and the other symbols in my mind? Where does the reality of this thing come into being - in its physical form or the shape its symbol in my mind? Can I change the ...

Have you felt the flow of time as it passes by? At rare occasions one might experience that sensation of an external moment. As waves lap at your ankles as you stand at the shore, all moves around you, but you yourself are still in time. Past and future are outside of you. The notion of motion becomes so distant as to be forgotten, tem...

I turned the corner, but there was nothing there surprised, disheartened, silenced, I stared I had turned corners like this before, but today there was nothing there. What echo falls on saddened ears, when the unexpected is found and what more unexpected emptiness, is there than hollow sound? When during the road of my life's travels, ...

Dear world, When I was in my third year of university, I had a course on stellar atmospheres. I took it with one of my best friends at the time and since it was just the two of us, we had the lectures in the professor's office instead of a ventilated lecture theatre. The three of us would sit in that office, Sarah and I on a couch that...

Dear world, For some time now, I've wanted to write to you, but wasn't really sure what to write about. It's difficult to know who you are and what you are interested in, and therefore what we could be talking about. It's also been long enough since I really quit the "small" social networks, the ones where you could identify your conne...

Dear world. I have a lot to ask of you. Please build fewer parking spots. Please fix mistakes instead of just leaving them around. Please watch the people around you. Please can it be normal to greet strangers and ask them to be more polite and considerate when they walk about town. I don't blame you for the plague, I know these things...