Tag: Die

there’s one thing you should know about me, it’s that I read vastly across all genres. Nobody puts baby in a corner — or me in just one section of the bookstore. Sometimes it’s fiction, sometimes business, sometimes self-development, and sometimes intensely detailed psyc...

Will you die bitterly regretting not having done anything? Will you die imagining that you’ve realized your dream, your dreams, your dream life? Do you think that on your deathbed, you’ll be happy to know that you spent your life dreaming in your head rather than working to achieve...

Three of us sat knee-to-knee in the doctor’s office. It was a small room, too small to discuss something as enormous as the black shadows on my father’s lungs. He’d had a wet cough for a year, maybe even longer, and we waited for the bad news. The doctor explained that the small...

Since 2010, I’ve read exactly 992 books. If it takes me almost fifteen years to read a thousand, I optimistically have another 4,000 books ahead of me in my lifetime. The first time someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I answered, “I want to be happy,” which both...

What will you see before you die? Visions of deceased loved ones, bright white lights, or even aliens? The answer is none of the above. Your life will flash before your eyes, memorable moments replaying like a film reel in the final moments before your death. It’s a cliche for a re...

I’ve certainly encountered my share of victim blaming since I lost my home in the 2018 Camp Fire. The first time was within days of the fire, when one of the local news anchors said something to the effect of, “Why would anybody even live in an area with such high fire danger?&rd...

Life feels incomplete without work. Work isn’t just a 9–5 job or running a business. It can be volunteering, interior design, farming, or carpentry — whatever you love. I remember when my father had to retire at 65; he was devastated. Work was his world, part of who he was, givi...

Dying broke is not something that someone like you would typically aspire to. When one says “dying broke,” it conjures up a picture of a destitute, lonely person dying alone in a cheap motel room or single-room occupancy among strangers. Perhaps dying in a crappy, State-run nursing ho...

What’s a dumb way to die? An example is the saga around legacy ez-link and Flashpay cards on transit, with the public yelling bloody murder over being forced to transition to the account-based SimplyGo ticketing system. It started from a small thing like not being able to see card values and f...

Is Donald Trump the cancer inside the body of the Republican party that will kill it eventually? As outrageous as the question may sound to Trump supporters, it is not unreasonable. Trump has been indicted for 91 felony counts, accused of rape in the E. Jean Carroll case, found guilty of business fr...

Oh boy, where do I even start with this one? Sure, it’s a “positive” stereotype, but let’s be honest, it’s still a stereotype. Telling an Asian person they must be good at math is like telling a millennial they must love avocado toast — somewhat likely b...