Recently, I was confronted with an ingenious argument: I am who I am because of my past. Hence, you should grant me similar behaviour in my future in order to remain to be (i) the person that I am today and (ii) the person whom you like. She says it's unfair of me to refuse her wishes. I offered her a compromise, which she did not like. This issue keeps surfacing. I...
In my recent blog on Acceptance, I mentioned Bargaining as the 3rd step in the Kübler-Ross model of processing Grief. I have never written about this topic. Perhaps I couldn't envision this step, perhaps it was too personal. Since a few days, I was bargaining without realising it. Bargaining is a common feature in our lives. Wiki: "Bargaining or haggling is a type...
Consumerism seems deeply ingrained in our human behaviour. In a way, we still behave like the hunter-gatherers of human evolution. Now we hunt for bargains and collect (gather) stuff for our homes. Often we buy things we don't need (with money we don't have) to impress people we don't even like, a quote by Dave Ramsey, an "American radio personality". Each...
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