Moonlit Ruminations

If you’ve ever played adopt me during the peak covid era, you’d know how much of a manipulative bloodbath it was. On one hand you have the sincere kids grinding their way to the top, buying eggs that gave you a legendary pet once in a blue moon and the other? Roblox rich kids flaunting their mega fly rides in trading servers. And lets not forget the sneaky ones that end up scamming a 6-year old of their first unicorn (i’ve fallen victim to this, unfortunately, hahah) Honestly, I'm so glad 8-year old me was never given a million dollars cause we all know where that money would be going (have to admit that I low key fantasized about this happening and becoming a robux billionaire). But those covid afternoons spent immersing myself in the digital pet mania after online classes eventually faded, like all obsessions do once it played its part, even if you thought it would be your whole life.  2 years ago I picked up the game I abandoned for four years with a different purpose. The girl ...

If you had to choose between [imagine your favorite celeb] or a well qualified political leader for president, where would your vote fall? This is complicated, it shouldn’t be, but it is. First, let's start by taking the case in which a politically uninformed citizen decides to vote and findS out that a famous celebrity of their preference is also qualified to run for office. We don't have to look far to see this thought experiment play out in reality. When Vijay announced his run for chief minister it posed unintended consequences that took root in the most influenced generation—teenagers. Classmates and friends who had never once initiated conversations about governance or politics were suddenly cornering teachers, debating fictional voting choices and defending political platforms they just learned existed. Why? Because the human brain is wired for familiarity. Traditionally, political candidates spend years trying to gain the trust of their voters—crafting policies and agen...

   I experienced something terrifying just this moment. It may sound dramatic, but in this tech-revolving world we’ve all been here. Embarrassedly, the first time I felt this heart dropping phenomenon was when I was scammed for my first fly-ride unicorn ever on adopt me. This was a solid eight years ago and I still remember the guilty sleepless nights I spent over how things could have gone differently. But what happened today could never eclipse that.. I was logging onto Spotify for Creators to check my posting schedule and upload a new episode on The Future Mogul Podcast and I was met with “Upload Your First Episode!”; that exclamation mark was like salt to the wound. My legs felt weak, and ironically I was just about to speak with a new guest on the podcast right that moment and I had to try my best to pull it all together.  How could one message completely and utterly derail three years of dedication and hard work just like that? The world felt cruel, unfair. I would...

  As we now enter the month of may, I think it's best to use this platform to address stuff that almost all ri sing seniors are feeling—college, moving away, new chapters, beginnings and definitely endings that are lurking in the corner. So, for the next post this summer lets take a break from philosophy and dive into some more real feelings that linger in our minds. Obviously, with the college applications season approaching on August 1st it has been a wild ride writing supplements and essays—researching schools and being surprised at how much I love a school that was never on my radar. Strangely, this whole process of writing essays has been the most profound way I've started to learn more about myself on both an academic and personal level. I genuinely need to appreciate the US college system with how its admissions are structured—forcing you out of the robotic movements over the past 4 years and making you reflect on the bigger purpose as to why you put in that effort in th...

In all my experience, I believe the academic relationship between a mentor, a teacher, is one of the most genuine forms of human transaction. It overrides the human tendency of jealousy in most simple cases because there is no direct line of comparison. A teacher sees their knowledge culminate in another and see it bear fruit. If anything, their greatest accomplishment would be seeing someone they taught benefiting off their effort. Although the intent or subconscious reasoning may be humanly flawed the authenticity behind the want for someone to succeed cannot be questioned. I say this with my own experience getting the opportunity to formally tutor students. I always believed that some lingering amounts of jealousy may exist when someone succeeds in our arena but I found that when someone succeeds due to me it doesn't feel like competition at all, but instead a continuation of knowledge held in another person. But of course, a relationship stronger than this is evidently one bet...

What I have written and am writing now already exists—this exact combination of letters, words and feeling—in a mathematical certainty. Hard to believe?  The Library of Babel is a thought experiment by Jorge Luis Borges—an infinite library that is claimed to contain every possible combination of words and letters wherein it becomes inevitable that in the gibberish, somewhere exists the true story of your death, even the conception of the universe. But the problem lies in the fact that it is literally infinite, and no one can look for something unless they know it.  This paradox reflects the implications of a block universe, a deterministic universe, where all that is to have occurred in the past and the future is set in time and we are merely puppets moving through a carved path. Every point in time, the existence of dinosaurs, the day of your birth and your death are just as present in this block as this second. Everything exists congenially. If such a universe were to exist,...

Imagine you're behind a veil before birth. You don't know if you will be born rich, poor, healthy, disabled, in a war zone, or a palace. What laws would you write for that society? This thought experiment by John Rawls traces the delicate notion of equality and the human answers and solutions reveal much about our nature and our innate perception of justice and fairness. If the question was asked without the catch of the uncertainty of your placement in society, it is most understandable that one would choose to craft a society wherein life's circumstances become most fortuitous and in your favour—the aspects of living conditions that exist beyond control will now be under the mercy of your choosing. But it is interesting to note how much consideration an individual might ascribe to the well being of others in such a situation. I believe this depends on the individual themselves. Based on the actions of humans in this world—teeming with malice, the ones who, in their heart...