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Books of 2023 - A Retrospective

With 2023 having finally ended, here's a list of the books of 2023 that left an impression on me:

The Psychology of Money. The book seems to follow the mantra of "keep it simple, stupid". A lot of the insights the book provides seems to be simple, borderline obvious. But that's the appeal of the book and a major reason why it makes for such good reading. Morgan Housel is able to translate seemingly obvious financial truths in such a digestible manner that it makes reading the book a joy. With a lot of books floating around purporting financial freedom, Psychology of Money provides a good entry point for sound financial advice.

Pachinko. There's little that needs to be said about this book that hasn't been said already on BookTok or elsewhere. If you haven't read this book already, do yourself a favour and pick it up immediately. Min Jin Lee's intergenerational story of Korean immigrants moving to Japan set during Japan's colonial era in the early 20th century, the novel not only highlights the lasting discrimination Koreans faced and continue to face within Japanese society, but shows how the threads of family and legacy stretch across time and space. Would recommend this to anyone with a pair of eyes.

Shoe Dog. For all the bootstrap entrepreneurs out there, this book should already be on your shelves. And if you aren't looking to kickstart your own billion dollar shoe company, give it a read regardless. An energising memoir about the founder of Nike and his Herculean task to create the ultimate running shoe, Mark Knight makes you feel like you're in the trenches with him as he and his band of misfits take on the sporting apparel world. For anyone wanting to read a David & Goliath story as the underdog claws their way to claim their own space within an already dominated market, pick it up.

Sapiens. I know I'm a little late to the party with this one, but given its size and heft, you'll have to forgive me. Honestly, it's such a sweeping book that's able to condense history, anthropology, and sociology into a forgiving format. For anyone wanting to learn more about the world we live in, and how we came to be as a species, Yuval Noah Harari makes learning about the history of humanity less of a chore and more of a well made documentary. Also, it does boost your cool literary points by at least 10 anytime you mentioned that you read a book on Obama's reading list.

Confessions of an Economic Hitman. For anyone wanting further confirmation of America's deeply self serving agenda in the pursuit of global dominance, John Perkins' memoir as an economic hitman might be worth the read. With settings and characters akin to a 007 movie, Perkins takes you into the shadowy world of foreign aid as a thinly veiled disguise of neo-colonialism. The memoir dives deep into a setting filled with handlers, joint government partnerships, and coups. Honestly, reads similar to Manufacturing Consent, but with less statistics and graphs which makes it very easy to read.

1000 Years of Joy and Sorrow. Ai Weiwei is truely a singular artist in his own right. From defacing and destroying centuries old Chinese artefacts to make a statement on global consumerism, to investigating the Chinese government's ineptitude in the face of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, Weiwei has never shied away from his most hard held beliefs of bring voice to the people. 1000 Years of Joy and Sorrow serves a mirror, reflecting not only his own youth and rise to artistic stardom and subsequent imprisonment by the Chinese government, but the life of his father, a young struggling artist in Paris who becomes a political pariah during Maoist China. For anyone wanting to understand the inherent political power art has, or wanting to read a son's ode to a father's sacrifice, this is a must read.

[wheremyhugat2003]

YES it is ok to be a complete piece of shit just as long as U R doing it in the eyes of GOD 🙏. i havent had my period EVER because i have chosen to remain pure.YES i am pregnant and married at 18 just as my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother were before me ❤️. unlike u Harlots, my breasts have never grown above a b cup. Because i am committed to Jesus. So thankful for the Free Will that God gave my husband so he had the sense to marry me ✝️. he still wont tell me how old he is. i found an app on his phone called Grindr. he told me it is for men who are workimgf together to GRIND their way into Heaven! my son Axeshton is my WORLD 🌎i tell him everyday that he is king of everything. my daughters name is Symptom and i hate her. i dont know what i would do without a 4glasses of wine every night haha. i thank God every day for this mypiece of shit life AMEN

[eraserheadbb]

i love that absolutely no one on here gives a shit about trixie and katya and i can just speak mypiece into a completely uninterested void

[tyty77]

#mypiece

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a word

[afantasy15]

New name for "the child"

How about instead of calling the child baby yoda we call him yeddle. It just works. And theres less confussion.

[mariabovindelabbe]

Good morning! 🌺🧚🏻‍♀️ #drummer #dreamydrumess #warmingup #warmup #gottogetmoving #framedrum #framedrummer #inspiration #visualinspiration #venus #mypiece #solitude #solitudemorning (på/i Fjellstrand, Norway) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn5nyT_Bai5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e5frwoybmawe

[ibleedsoul]

[seekingcalmseas-blog]

Stars

I’ve been neglecting this blog for a while now.  Thankfully, it’s been because things are going fairly decently surprisingly enough - I’m just as shocked as you are.  I guess therapy really works.  I’ve decided to pause therapy for a while because I think it gets to a point where you’re just reliving things over and over which isn’t helpful in the slightest.  It’s time for me to stop living that time on repeat and tell it to kindly fuck off so I can move on.

I titled this entry “Stars” because that’s what I want to talk about.  There’s some back story here so bear with me.

This whole idea of soulmates always seemed a little foreign to me, but mostly because when I think I’ve found them, it backfires in the most epic way.  And I mean EPIC way.  I’ve really put it out of my mind for a long time now because even if I did find them, I’ve been told multiple times that soulmates don’t always get to be together and that sounds more painful than not finding them.

I met this man just over a week ago (yeah yeah, it’s about a guy get over it) and I’ve never felt a connection like this one.  I’m an empath so I connect with people in various ways - whether that’s their energy, pain or delight.  This was something so much more.  You know that Justin Timberlake song “Mirrors” where he sings about falling for someone because they’re so similar, it’s like looking in a mirror.  I used to think that was a sweet thought, but improbable. I was so wrong. 

I’m an introvert (hide your shock here) and don’t love connecting with people and especially don’t enjoy being touched by strangers in any way (including handshakes and fist bumps) and it’s not about germs, it’s about my trepidation with energy transference.  It sounds hokey until you experience an energy sucker touching you in any way.

Well he put his arm around my shoulders at one point and I didn’t even notice until I left his work to go home.  It felt like the most natural thing in the world and I still don’t understand it.  A few days later, while spending some time together, he made a comment that we were made of stars and while moving to this plane of life, our beings collided and now a part of me is a part of him and visa-versa. Normally, I’d roll my eyes and go “uh huh” but it made so much sense to me that I just nodded and agreed.

There’s a lot of implications that we (humans) aren’t from this planet and it makes me wonder.  Maybe we are all the product of starstuff and in the process of moving from one plane to another, some of us mixed.  So really, we’ve known each other for eons...we just forgot.  I don’t understand people, but nature makes sense to me - this includes space.  Stars fall (or what we call die) and we wish on them.  What if they’re just coming down to join us (lord knows why since we’re SUCH a mess) and live here instead of in the vastness of space.  Maybe that’s where we’re supposed to end up.  Heaven being back up in the stars with the beings we were mixed with when we came here. Hell being apart for the rest of time...whatever time is.

I sort of feel like I found a piece of my soul I didn’t know was missing.

My other being walked away. With my piece. I’m in perpetual hell. Nothing I can do but continue to exist.

I just needed to write this out to the universe.  It hurts. A lot. It’s different from the average heartache. It’s in the soul.

Just keep breathing, girl, you’re going to be ok.

No measure of time with you will be long enough, but let’s start with forever.

[smoking-ouid]

Darling, the stars have nothing on you.

My Universe

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[i-wonder-lust]

04:48, she sits by the window and looks up at the dimly lit stars, she dreams of waking up in cities she doesn’t know her way around, of breathing the crisp, morning air in New York, of burning her tongue on hot chocolate in a small coffee shop in Germany, she dreams of watching strangers pass by, with a lifetime full of stories on the Delhi streets, she dreams of getting far, far away from all of this; the repetitiveness routine in the same, old, boring town. 05:27, the stars fade, and the sun rises, and she returns to her, melancholy life.

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magnum opus

It’s finally here! The release of my newest written work has arrived and I will first share it with you, my dedicated followers. This is a profile that I wrote about my friend’s lifestyle and mindset. I like to think of it as a little reminder to always think positive, because “once you have hit the bottom, there is no where left to go but up.”

 Be sure to leave me some feedback, I would appreciate it so much! 

//y.f

A Look into the Life of Luis A. Diaz Soto

Yumna Fayyaz

 An optimist, an aspiring nurse, and a family man. These are all attributes of Luis A. Diaz Soto. At only 17 years old, Luis is a man with great focus and motivation, and he has no one to thank but the people who surround him. Luis uses the people in his life for inspiration everyday, and tries to embody the good he sees in them. Luis also hopes that pieces of himself are left within the people he meets. Though Luis is shaped by his friends, no one means more to him than his parents. Being immigrants, Luis is proud of his parents for looking out for their family and working hard to bring them to a better state of living. Luis dreams of one day being as strong as his parents are, and to have a big, loving family of his own. Making his parents happy is what Luis says to be his greatest achievement. By getting into his top choice program at Ryerson University for nursing, Luis knows he can eventually repay his parents for all they have done for him.

It may not show through his overwhelmingly positive personality, but there have obviously been obstacles Luis has had to overcome. Namely, Luis struggles with finding a balance between family, friends, work and school. Luis is employed at Shopper’s Drug Mart, working long hours that go up until midnight. Because of this, most of Luis’ school nights are spent awake completing homework and assignments. Procrastination is Luis’ biggest enemy, and he easily falls victim to it when it comes to friends. People are often times distracting to Luis, and these distractions lead to the lack of his completed work. Additionally, Luis goes out of his way to please all those around him, even if it results in self-sabotage. Luis can be too caring, and he loses sense of his own priorities when it comes to helping out a friend. In a way, Luis uses his friends as an excuse to turn a blind eye to his personal tasks, as being a good friend becomes another excuse to procrastinate. Furthermore, recently Luis reached, what he would call, his ultimate low. When schoolwork piled up, friends were absent, and family seemed preoccupied, Luis felt as though he had hit rock bottom. In addition to these struggles, the biggest obstacle that Luis has had to face is racial discrimination. As a child, Luis had always been labelled as “the Mexican.” At first, Luis did not understand why his heritage could be used as an insult or seen as a negative comment, but because of the constant stereotyping from his peers and the media, Luis’ mindset began to change. Luis began to feel ashamed of his background, and tried to hide the fact that he could speak another language. However as he grew older, Luis learned to embrace his origins and, like most things in his life, looked at the bright side. Luis made it his mission to represent Mexico in a positive light, and to reverse society’s close-minded views of his home country. Although he has faced multiple obstacles over the course of his life, Luis has always steered for the rational route, and learned that once you have hit the bottom, there is nowhere left to go but up.

You may be wondering, where does he get all this wise, positive energy? The simple answer is that it’s in his genes. Once when he was very young, Luis’ father said to him: “It takes three strikes to get out. You have to continue to fight and never give up, because you are never out on the first strike.” Since that day, Luis wakes up every morning, ready to learn from his mistakes, and especially ready to learn from his father. If he had to choose just one person, Luis would say that his biggest inspiration is his dad. Arturo Diaz-Soto, a father of four children, works hard for his family. In fact, he worked himself to the bone to be able to call Canada a home. It was here that Arturo and his wife, Lina, started their family. Since he was a young toddler, Luis has looked up to his father, and seen him as the rock of the Diaz-Soto home. Arturo works day and night to ensure his family has a healthy and secure lifestyle, and there has never been a day where Arturo was unaffectionate to his children and wife. Luis specifically admires his father’s altruistic personality, as he exceeds his work load and still manages to give his family attention, and hopes to be able to make similar sacrifices for his own family in the future. Luis mirrors his father’s personality traits on the daily, and hopes to one day be as selfless, hardworking, dedicated and caring as his father.

Luis’ smile radiates the hallways of Jean Vanier Catholic Secondary School. In fact, it’s almost contagious. Everyone in his presence is influenced by his positivity, but one would be surprised to know that Luis has travelled a long, hard road to get his confidence to where it stands today. Luis only recently learned to come out of his protective shell, and take chances. His justification is that fate is set, and that it is okay to take a risk if it means that you’ll get the experience. Despite the fact that he is always seemingly content, Luis is not exempted from living a life with a few regrets. Luis constantly reflects on his past decisions, and finds disappointment not in his action, but rather, in the lack thereof. Luis regrets losing bonding time with extended family when they visit Canada, he finds that his true background lies within them. Luis believes that family is an essential part of any lifestyle, so being apart from his own family upsets him. Luis is also contrite that he does not give significance to the little things in life that can go a long way. Luis realizes that a short “hello” or “goodnight” may not seem like much to him, but it may brighten up his parents’ whole day. As previously stated, Luis wants to repay his parents for all that they have given him, and he feels that by starting to acknowledge them and displaying their importance in his life will help to contribute to that. Luis also greatly regrets wasting his time when it comes to friendships. Throughout high school, Luis always felt as though he was a burden to those around him, an annoyance, the gum stuck under your shoe. It was because of this discomfort, that Luis was hesitant to form close relationships and find true friends. True, Luis found a handful of trustworthy people through classes, clubs or sports, but in the back of his mind, he still felt like as if his friendships were founded on pity. Eventually, Luis realized that the people in his life truly loved him, and that he was far from being sticky, annoying gum. The tragic part is that this revelation occurred to Luis in the final months of his last year in high school. Although they caused a lot of pain throughout his life, it was through these built-up regrets that Luis learned a very important lesson: it is rare for something to happen twice, but nothing will ever repeat itself the same, exact way.  

“Plan for victory, prepare for failure.” This is Luis’ life motto. The way he sees it, you can aim for good goals, but you must never put yourself in a situation where you are lost. Luis has learned that you should always try to have control of your own life, and to always make a backup plan to fall on. As gaining success has always been part of Luis’ plan, his biggest fear is respectively to fail on his own terms. This fear prompted his dominant personality to always have things under control. Luis never disappoints, but when the situation is not in his hands, and he does not have it on paper, things start to go downhill. Long story short, Luis is a control freak, but being that way is the gate to his own path of success. That success is defined by having a loving family, with many children, and studying to be a nurse practitioner in five years.

Luis is a dedicated student, a reliable friend, a trustworthy son, and an accomplished person in general. In a shockingly short amount of time, Luis has managed to learn many life lessons and has passed what he learned down to his peers, siblings and friends. Luis has a set plan for his future life, including his career and family, however he is also prepared if that plan gets off track. With the help of his family and friends, Luis has formed into a positive, young man who is wise beyond his years, and has certainly left bits of himself in everyone around him.

//y.f