Having a youthful mind also drives you toward a healthy lifestyle that will slow the aging process. Just as a lack of physical exercise has negative effects on our bodies and mood, a lack of mental exercise is bad for us because it causes our neurons...
WHAT DO WE THINK about when we think about football? Football is about so many things, so many complex, contradictory and conflicting things: memory, history, place, social class, gender in all its troubled variations (especially masculinity, but increasingly femininity too), family identity, tribal identity, national...
WHAT IS LOVE? It is unfortunate that we have to ask this question. In the natural course of things everybody would know what love-is. But I understand that nobody knows - or only very rarely - what love is. Love has become one of the rarest experiences. Yes,...
You cling to misery because it has some investment somewhere, it works. Now once you know it works, ’it always gets the old boy’, you have stumbled upon a key. Now you will go on using that key. That’s why you are miserable. When you...
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Philosopher (1803–1882), Transcendentalist Through the ages, an impressive number of philosophers - from hedonists to transcendentalists - have rated friendship as life's greatest pleasure. Not...
