It seems like we have an inherent nature to try and run from and turn our back on death. Like if we live ignorant of it long enough maybe it won’t come. Or maybe we’ll get more time if we don’t think about it. But really it’s quite the opposite. Until you start remembering your time is limited. Until you start remembering it’s a gift you take a breath and see a sunrise or a sunset. It’s a gift to love and be loved. Until you have that knowledge and lose the expectation of tomorrow you never really live. 

So the very act of ignoring,refusing to remember, or just completely turning a blind eye to death means you haven’t even started to live yet. When you wake up each day thankful that you have another chance. When you remember none of this is guaranteed and each day is another gift. Then you really truly live. 

Every day becomes richer brighter deeper and has much more potential. You don’t take the people around you for granted. You don’t need a near miss or an accident to say you love someone or appreciate them. You show them daily. Not because you almost lost them but because you know time is finite in our experience of it. Whether you believe in something beyond this or not, this realm this experience this moment is special and has purpose. There’s a reason to be here. It could be as simple as just appreciating it or it could be you change your life or that of others. What’s important is to not think you have tomorrow. Not put things off thinking someday or when the weather is better or when I retire. Not waiting for money or a certain situation to experience things you want. 

Find a way every day to live that day fully. Even if you have to start out pretending, just don’t expect tomorrow. If you get the gift of another day embrace it,appreciate it, and share it. If you get another one then do it again. 

Live them all fully and when death does come, and it will, may you approach it with less fear. May you not have resentment, regrets, or long for all the things that you didn’t do. May you greet it with a smile and all the memories of how full you really lived each day. That you look back and know you appreciated, you lived fully, and you felt with every fiber of your being. You loved with abandon, you were hurt time after time, but picked yourself back up. You overcame so much and you lived a life that was yours. It was your design, your will, your mistakes, your triumphs, your dreams, and your pain. Live that life, live that day, and live it as the gift it is. 

Death comes for us all but truly living life is something so few actually experience. I hope I see you out there smiling, embracing, and fully experiencing it all. See you on the road and see you on the other side.

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In classical physics, cause always precedes effect. But in quantum mechanics, particles don’t seem to care. If a photon is given the “choice” to behave like a particle or a wave, its behavior isn’t fixed until it’s measured — and incredibly, the way we choose to measure it can retroactively determine how it acted before the measurement. This isn’t just theory anymore. It’s been observed in peer-reviewed lab setups using ultra-sensitive detectors and state-of-the-art photon sources.

One version of the experiment split a photon into two entangled twins. One traveled to a detector where it was measured directly. The other passed through a system where scientists could either preserve or erase which-path information — after the first photon had already been detected. The eerie result: the earlier measurement lined up with the later choice, as if the particle somehow “knew” what its partner would encounter.

This shakes the foundation of causality. While no information can travel faster than light — meaning no violation of relativity — the implication is deeper: at the quantum level, reality isn’t determined until it’s observed, and sometimes, observation in the present seems to sculpt the past.

Some physicists think this hints at a universe that’s fundamentally interconnected across space and time. Others wonder whether time itself might be an emergent illusion — something that appears orderly only when observed at scale. Either way, the more we look into quantum mechanics, the more reality stops behaving like reality.

And if the past can be changed by the present… what else might be possible?

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We struggle, and we triumph.

Each new day arrives full of hope—

hope that, by dusk, may have faded.

But still, we continue.

We must continue.

For life is the ultimate pendulum.

The ultimate balance.

The brighter the light that shines upon us,

the longer the shadow it casts behind.

Each day is not an opportunity to win,

but a chance to slow the swing.

To stop fighting against the dark or chasing the light,

and instead—to embrace what is.

To live fully in each moment.

To release our labels of good and bad,

and simply be present with the breath we are taking.

Whatever you are experiencing is meant to be.

It has purpose.

It will guide you to what comes next.

No matter what you believe—

or what you believe in—

have faith in yourself.

Believe in who you are,

and more importantly,

in who you are becoming.

Every day is a swing of the pendulum.

But you are the fulcrum on which it pivots.

You are the center of both the light and the dark.

You are the hope.

You are the despair.

You are everything—to yourself.

And with that…

isn’t everything else just a bonus?

When you struggle, remember:

the swing will return.

Everything balances out.

Those who harm or hurt you

have their own pendulums to face.

Don’t focus on them.

Don’t focus on anything else.

Sit.

Breathe.

Feel.

Experience.

LIVE.

For this experience is yours to shape—

into the most beautiful adventure:

The Pendulum of Life.

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I ask because for much of my life I have sought this answer or at least a better understanding of what it means to be happy. I mean we all seem to seek it but we also seem to have no idea what it looks like beyond what we have been raised or told that happiness is.

Let me give you a personal example of how the elusive happiness seems to always stay out of reach or not be as we thought when we seemingly achieve it.

Well over a year ago now I quit my well paying career. For 30 plus years I worked in a high pressure, around the clock, no time off tech job. Now don’t get me wrong I love technology and it’s safe to say I was good at it too. I worked my way in and up to a high level position with no college degree. Sounds like right there I should be happy huh? In many ways I was. I enjoyed achieving tough goals and making a difference in my company. The problem is I watched everyone else have more of a life and seemingly a happier one. I was tired of year after year losing my vacation time or just making work my daily focus. So one day on a conference call I just quit. Yep, in the middle of a call, and after 22 years at the company, I just said I’m done and typed my resignation and handed it in, on the call. Now if you know me at all this was completely out of character for me. It’s also the first time since I was seventeen I was without a job. Scary and a bit crazy to say the least.

Fast forward to today. I still haven’t taken a vacation. I don’t go do all the things I said the job was keeping me from. I’m still looking for what’s next. At times it’s hard to make ends meet when that was never and issue before. On the surface I made a bad choice and things are less towards the happiness end of the dial.

Now hold on because this is where it get’s interesting. I am in some ways more stressed. Life on the surface seems harder. I’ve even thought about jumping back into the very career I barely escaped from. Here is the key though. I am happy. My days, and my choices, are mine. I am not in work mode all the time. When I step away from a money making activity I am actually away and in the moment more than ever before in my life.

That Is what I think happiness is. Freedom, love, and acceptance make up happiness. The freedom to make choices good and bad. The freedom to guide what you will do with each and every precious day. It’s not waiting to the weekend to have a life but rather make your way through life in a moment by moment way. It’s the ability to love yourself and find who you truly are. To follow a passion even if it fails. To try things in life and find the journey that makes you feel whole and like in some way you made a difference. Finally learning to accept what is and what will be. To choose to be happy with what you have and where you are even if you want to change it.

Now with all this said you don’t have to do anything so drastic as quit in the middle of a work call but you do have to take the wheel. You need to stop the groundhog day of rinse and repeat and start making the choices that make you happy. Find a way to do what you love or at least enjoy the moments of your life more.

Every day is a gift and at some point we run out of them. Don’t wait for retirement or later to do anything. Life is precious and we never know the moment later no longer will come. Love life, love the people around you, and most importantly love yourself.

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When it’s hard to breathe small tasks feel like insurmountable mountains.

When it’s hard to breathe isolation seems more prevalent.

When it’s hard to breathe loneliness is most profound.

When it’s hard to breathe options seem few and challenging.

When it’s hard to breathe love of self, and others, feels difficult.

When it’s hard to breathe, just keep breathing

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Just when you thought you understood the double-slit experiment scientists have now been able control time in the results of the experiment.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy38xk/physicists-created-slits-in-time-and-discovered-unexpected-physics-in-experiment

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Your whole life you’ve been confusing people – including yourself. Social interactions can either recharge or drain your social batteries. Parties can make you feel alive, switched on, and your most confident – or completely bored, annoyed and withdrawn. You’re resilient and sensitive at the same time. Very social but rarely out. You enjoy being the center of attention – there are days when you think out loud, and you rarely care. And then there are days when you over-think everything, rarely thinking out loud, your annoying inner monologue kicking in. The entirety of your being is a conundrum.

You need constant mental stimulation. You hate first dates. “Please anything but small talk” you think to yourself. Unlike a real extrovert, small talk stresses you out like crazy – you need deeper conversations to make you feel alive. At times you physically can’t stand talking on the phone. You’ll screen your phone calls – even from your closest friends. It’s too intrusive for you. Friends expect you to tear your mind away from whatever it is you focusing on and focus on them. This literally makes your brain hurt, your mind can’t change direction easily.

Maintaining friendships is a constant struggle for you. At any given point, you have one (maybe two) best friends who are your entire world. You’ll connect with people very easily, that’s not the problem. Here’s the thing, when you meet with someone, you’ll go out of your way to make them feel comfortable and happy, but it takes you a while to feel fully comfortably, so you can only take being around others incrementally.

At the same time, when you’re upset you need to talk it out with at least three different people. This can puzzle you emotionally – you need to be surrounded by people to be happy, but you also have moments of wanting to isolate yourself to recharge and be left alone with your thoughts. Your self-angst is maxed out. You often feel like you’re out of control of your emotional life – so you compensate by tending to desire control in other areas of your life.  You’re driven, often a perfectionist, you care about the outcome of things. Indecisiveness is your Achilles’ Heel.

You ebb and flow between needing time alone to recharge your batteries and getting bored or antsy spending a day at home alone – this sort of down time feels either completely satisfying or utterly pointless, it all depends on your mood. 

Sometimes you feel like you were made in reverse. Coffee can actually be counter-productive for you. You hate traditional systems. You notice details that others don’t. You loathe the concept of how things “should be” – from the structure of our educational system to certain “rites of passage.” You think about everything – maybe a little too much. But it’s in your intolerability of “what’s supposed to be” that you innovate your own life.

Being a unique blend of both an extrovert and introvert makes you interact with the world a little bit differently than others, while it can be stressful, it often makes you see the world originally, too.

Anna Bashkova

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