Mentalechoes

Wikipedia's opening line about addictions is this: An addiction is a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity.

It's that part that makes me believe that addiction isn't just about physical scenarios, but emotional ones as well. Usually we use the word for the case of a particular type of drug abuse, but it [...]

There seems to be a lot of angst in the world when it comes to male-female relationships. Since the time of the first homosapiens – those monkeys who actually could think enough to get confused about what their fuckbuddy was complaining about – it seems both sides have been trying to work each other out. In one of [...]

In November last year my high school had its 20 year reunion, a big party was organized in Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast – just south of Bris-vegas – which funnily enough was only 5 minutes bike ride away from the school itself. I didn’t get a chance to go, even though I really [...]

I've got a friend who always gives money to beggars on the street and at supermarket entrances. He says it's because they're people in need and that he doesn't like to see people down on their luck. I keep telling him that he's a sucker because people do take advantage of his generous nature, especially when they [...]

show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and 5 times out of 9 I’ll show you an exceptional man, Charles Bukowski.
show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities, Charles [...]

It was Tuesday night this week when I found myself in town with an hour to kill before a friend turned up who I was going to have dinner with. It was a warm late afternoon, and so I thought I would stroll to the bookstore and get myself something to read to pass the time. I bought [...]