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The Strange Grief of Letting Go
Missing someone who hurt you is one of the most confusing emotional experiences a person can have. It doesn’t make sense on paper. If someone caused you pain, disrespected you, or repeatedly disappointed you, logic says you should feel relief when they’re gone. And sometimes you do. But alongside that relief often lives a quieter feeling: longing. You miss their presence. Their voice. Their familiarity. Even when you know, deeply, that staying would have damaged you more.
By mike7 days ago in Humans
The Exhaustion You Can’t Sleep Away
There is a type of tiredness that sleep does not fix. You can rest for eight hours, wake up on time, drink coffee, and still feel heavy. Not physically heavy in a way that points to illness, but internally heavy, like your mind is carrying more weight than your body can explain. Many people assume this means they are lazy, unmotivated, or broken in some way. In reality, it often means they are emotionally and mentally exhausted, even if they cannot clearly identify why.
By mike7 days ago in Humans
The Invisible War Between Who You Are and Who You Want to Be
The Pattern You Pretend Not to See Most people like to believe they are their own biggest supporters. They say they want growth, success, peace, love, and stability. And on the surface, that might be true. But if you look closely at behavior instead of words, a different story often appears. Procrastination. Avoidance. Inconsistency. Choosing comfort over progress. Repeating habits you already know are hurting you. This isn’t because people enjoy suffering. It’s because there is an internal conflict happening quietly beneath awareness.
By mike7 days ago in Humans
The Quiet Loss of Self in a Fast World
When You Realize Something Is Off At some point, many people experience a strange realization: they don’t feel like themselves anymore. It’s not dramatic. It’s not always painful. It’s subtle. You still wake up, go to work or school, talk to people, and function. But inside, there’s a quiet distance between who you are now and who you remember being. Things that used to excite you don’t hit the same. Conversations feel more shallow than they used to. You might even struggle to describe what’s wrong because nothing is obviously broken. Yet something feels misaligned.
By mike8 days ago in Humans
The Silent Confusion of Modern Life
There is a strange kind of emptiness that doesn’t look like sadness and doesn’t feel like depression in the traditional sense. It shows up quietly, often in people who appear to be doing “okay.” They have a routine. They have responsibilities. They might even have things others would call success. Yet beneath all of that, there is a persistent feeling that something is missing, something unnamed, something they can’t quite put into words. This feeling is becoming increasingly common, and it isn’t because people are weak. It’s because modern life is very good at keeping us busy but very bad at helping us feel aligned.
By mike8 days ago in Humans
The Prison Inside Your Head
Overthinking feels productive. It feels like you’re solving something. It feels like you’re being careful. It feels like you’re protecting yourself.
By mike8 days ago in Humans
Unequal Weights and Measures
This article serves as a summary and orienting manifesto for the series “Consent, Consequence, and Moral Symmetry,” which examines responsibility, risk, and justice in modern systems.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast8 days ago in Humans
Essence, Embodiment, and Relational Reality
The Failure of Reduction and the Need for Synthesis There is a persistent failure in many modern attempts to explain what a human being is. Some frameworks reduce the person entirely to matter, insisting that identity, consciousness, morality, and meaning are nothing more than emergent properties of physical processes. Other frameworks move in the opposite direction, detaching spirit from reason and grounding belief in intuition alone, often at the cost of coherence or accountability. Both approaches fail because both misunderstand essence. One denies that essence exists at all. The other treats it as something vague and undefinable.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast8 days ago in Humans
Essence Explained
This article is a plain-language companion to “Essence, Embodiment, and Relational Reality: Toward a Coherent Account of Personhood, Consciousness, and Being.”
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast8 days ago in Humans
The Tragedy of Untapped Potential
Most people don’t fail because they aren’t capable. They fail because they never fully try. Not in a lazy way. Not in an obvious way.
By mike8 days ago in Humans
The Silent Addiction Nobody Talks About
Most people think addiction looks obvious. Drugs. Alcohol. Gambling. Nicotine. But the most widespread addiction doesn’t come in a bottle.
By mike9 days ago in Humans
Why Feeling Empty Doesn’t Mean You’re Broken — It Means You’re Becoming Aware
There’s a feeling people rarely talk about. Not sadness. Not anger. Not depression in the obvious sense. Emptiness. A hollow space inside your chest that doesn’t scream —
By mike9 days ago in Humans