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Globesity: My Diet & Dietary Indiscretions
This morning, instead of my usual lighter YouTube personal development fare, I watched Globesity: How the world got fat. It talks about how multinational food corporations are feeding the global obesity epidemic. The documentary focuses a lot of soda companies. Recently, I stopped drinking diet sodas because I read about how they disrupt metabolism. Then,…
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Rejection & Self-Respect
Today, I’m listening to a stoicism video on YouTube about how to use moments of rejection as learning experiences—by encouraging our own self-respect and self-worth. Before dawn, I set an intention for the day on my Insight Timer app. Usually, I write long and winding intentions. This morning, there was a suggested intention. It read,…
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Meandering Thoughts & Book on Maternal Psychosis
Clarified Tagline for Reality Bytes I changed the tagline of my blog to say, “My Meandering Thoughts and Healthy Living Journal” after ChatGPT said I had an observer problem with my posts and the theme of the blog. To me, healthy living is about living in the moment and deriving meaning through daily actions and…
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The Work of a Human & “Little p Purpose”
This morning, I was lying in bed and enjoying my cotton blankets. I had slept 12 hours, which is the most I’ve slept in 2 weeks due to flu/possible pneumonia. As I lingered and enjoyed the waffled texture of my blanket, I thought about how Marcus Aurelius in his Meditations said we should not lie…
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Recovery from Illness: What I’ve Been Up To & What I Want to Do Next Week
Flu/ Possible Pneumonia I am recovering from an illness that began around New Year’s Eve. For the most part, I’ve been lying on the couch resting. Watching television with my daughter. Reading. I didn’t really want to blog because I didn’t feel up to it then. I’m still coughing, and I am very fatigued. Hoping…
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Embracing Longevity: A Shift in my Perspective
When I was younger, I did not want to live a long life. I felt like life was cruel and I did not see myself being fifty years old. At 47, about to turn 48 years old, I feel differently about the concept of living a very long life. I hope to live a long…
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Freedom of Will & Living Well
Freedom of Will, a concept of Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy A lot of times you hear about free will in religious circles. You also hear criticism of the concept of freedom of will from those who say we are never truly free of the human condition. Viktor Frankl discovered, as a prisoner in a holocaust death…
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Hope for the Future Keeps Us Alive
Spinoza’s Ethics Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it. Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning The prisoner who had lost faith in the future—his future—was doomed. With his loss of belief in the future, he also lost his spiritual hold; he let…
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1st Day of 2026
The Flu Yesterday, I began to feel a little under the weather, and by that evening I realised I have the flu. This morning, I woke up at 5 am as usual, but then I went back to sleep on the couch. Gumbo, my 11-year-old Chihuahua, was snuggled into the side of my body. He…
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The Future or the Past?
Earlier in my life, I tried to focus on the present and ignore the past. Then, the mental container holding the past began to burst and destroy my present. Several years were spent learning to acknowledge the past, grow from it, and still remain in the present. But recently, I guess it is age-related, I…
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