Awake and Elucidate

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  • Recovery from Limerence 2

    It’s been 2 weeks, I had a lot of thoughts about Pearl. Every time I felt that we could be better or what we could have been, I thought of the instances where she was livid; like a sprung mouse trap, activating with lightspeed and fury, reacting to my apparent foibles. It made me feel…

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  • Recovery from Limerence

    I had a brief romantic courtship with someone I thought to be “the One I would very much like to settle with” (“Pearl”), 1 year after moving on from “the One I let go” (“Cadence”). It was barely a year of correspondence and dates, and yet it was such an intense roller coaster ride that…

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  • Humans are Irrational #1

    If the bank offers you a secured amortised loan at 1.7% flat per year for 25 years and the government is giving 4% risk-free return compounded yearly as an investment. Would you take it? You pay about $0.42 in interest per dollar borrowed for the entire 25 years. Whereas after 25 years, every dollar invested…

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