Recent content by AureaMediocritas

This is my first post like this, so please bear with me if I do it incorrectly. I'm a relatively quick learner, with a few adjustments for unfamiliarity. However, if I do it correctly, the credit is due to someone named just me. Thank you, kind stranger. Now to the point of this post. I...

Somehow, I've mastered the diplomatic way of pissing people off because even when they want to shoot darts, they smile and mumble under their breath as they do exactly what is expected. I find that the more disclosure and accountability you provide, the more it angers those who prefer...

I've thought of another one: business sense (though I'm learning due to compulsory circumstances outside of my control). Advice: After every substantial oral conversation with employees or clients, do yourself a favor and summarize what was said in an email and CC everyone involved. It adds a...

I just realized that my post could be seen to be promoting child and adult relationships, but hopefully no one would make that assumption, and would defer to the fact that I was working from the preassigned stipulation of the OP. One can never be too certain, so I thought I should clarify.

Age past a certain number becomes arbitrary, in my opinion. I would postulate after 25, since that is the age of prime development in most people, a shift occurs where far more integral things like maturity, beliefs about the world, values, and goals take precedence over age. Age is rarely a...

Least qualified to give financial advice. My advice: Never keep all of your eggs in one basket, lest the basket tumble along with all of your eggs. Best to safe-keep a few in various locations for the security of the occasional breakfast.

You are most welcome. Thank you for receiving it. :)

Thank you. I think I believe something similar. I can't remember the exact phrase, but I recall something like, "You can never step in the same water twice." I'd add that while the water has shifted and changed, the affects of those shifts will be consistent ripples of lasting change even to the...

After losing my spouse young, I don't think the stages matter so much as the assumptions others make about your situation that even you cannot comprehend. Grief is a strange creature, and it is bound to no definitive timeline or law. It simply is. Someone, well-meaning, wrote this in a book on...

This made me audibly snort; rare, but well-deserved.

A glinting smooth stone found by the inquisitive fingers of a curious human along the shore of a river, cast back into the waters only to be found by another years later, time and again.

You explained yourself well-enough. I am now out of my depth with advice for you that others have not already so generously offered. So, all I can say is that I hope for the fulfillment of whatever your heart yearns for, even if not by the means you might have thought originally. Loneliness is...

Which is your favorite flower? When reading your reply, I was reminded of a quote by Jordan Peterson. "The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant." Like a flower pushing through frozen...

Firstly, nature tends to be a stage for such experience, and acts as a sort of conduit from the physical to the spiritual. So, I try to get outside as often as possible. Secondly, there is a reason that cathedrals are laden with stained glass, gold leaf pinnacles, and painted ceilings. We...

I haven't had the opportunity to read through every contribution to this intriguing discourse, but this stuck out to me as an erroneous perspective in the sense that it creates a high-pressure environment where the individual is absolved of due right-action towards the other because they can...