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Haircut blues

Posted on 16 April 2014 by Mark Flores

I’ve already become indifferent to bad haircuts. I used to get terribly depressed whenever a barber makes a mess out of my hair, but eventually I realized that there’s no point being all to crazy about bad haircuts. I mean, … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal | Tagged al's, anhedonia, barbershop, chance, epictetus, essay, family life, fortuna, haircuts, happiness, indifference, life, luck, men, menfolk, philosophy, sadness, stoic, stoicism, suffering, tarlac city | Leave a comment

Mistake

Posted on 22 October 2013 by Mark Flores

Perhaps I was wrong with everything. With every decision I had made, with every opinion I held about politics, philosophy, and art, with the way I saw life—perhaps they had all been a mistake. Perhaps I never had been right … Continue reading →

Posted in Personal | Tagged college life, egoism, essay, friends, growing up, high school life, ignorance, irrationality, lao tzu, life, madness, maturity, men, objectivity, prudence, subjectivism, subjectivity, suffering, tao te ching, taoism, women | 2 Comments

Gambling with women

Posted on 23 May 2013 by Mark Flores

I liked many things about Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Gambler. One is its exciting story. It is a page-turner and it has that good character development and connection where all the characters have an almost equal importance to the story as … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged book review, fyodor dostoyevsky, love, madness, men, novel, novella, obession, women | Leave a comment

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