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Chapter 37 – Life Taught Me Restraint

Posted 4 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Achievement, Agency, agency-withholding, articulation, attachment, avoidance, boundaries, cognitive dissonance, communication, confession, consent, consequence, desire, emotional labor, Ethics, Existentialism, failure modes, honesty, identity, Intimacy., Isolation, learning, loneliness, loss, masculinity, Mastery, memory, moral discipline, optimization, overfitting, permission, phenomenology, power dynamics, procedural grief, Reciprocity, recognition, regret, repression, restraint, self-accountability, self-authorship, self-erasure, silence, social norms, speech acts, time, translation, unmet-need, unspoken, vulnerability.

Chapter 37 - Life Taught Me Restraint Life Taught Me Restraint - Part I Restraint became my native tongue;
desire learned to speak only in silence.
I hid the wanting so well
even I forgot its shape. Read more from here...

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Ledger Without Cushion

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, Agency, alcohol, alignment, authenticity, consequence, cost of truth, decay, Defiance, dynamic pain, endurance, existential, Experience, exposure, growth, human condition, identity, inner voice, internal-conflict, Introspection, introspective, Isolation, life-journey, loneliness, melancholic, memory, metaphorical, minimalism, moral struggle, moral vigilance, mortality, Observation, personal evolution, personal struggle, philosophy, poetic, raw emotion, rebellion, reflection, rehab, resilience, risk, self-discovery, Self-mastery, societal expectation, solitude, static pain, suffering, time, truth, waiting, youth.

Ledger Without Cushion Verse 1 They chased the script the world supplied-
degree, cash, house, child, pride.
Neat receipts in tidy rows,
soft landings when the balance goes. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 131 – The Fear of Solitude

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: acceptance, Agency, awareness, character, clarity, consciousness, consequence, Courage, destiny, determinism, discipline, emotional control, endurance, Ethics, Existentialism, fate, fear, forward motion, grit, grounded wisdom, human condition, inevitability, inner strength, Introspection, Maturity, minimalism, Moral Spine., non-romantic, perseverance, personal law, philosophical poetry, psychological stability, quiet power, realism, refusal-of-illusion, resilience, resolve, responsibility, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 131, RonieDinosaur, Self-mastery, solitude, stoicism, strength without hope, time, walking metaphor, will.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 131 - The Fear of Solitude He walks in fear of being left behind,
in fear of ending up alone.
Yet he walks alone-
and always remains alone,
no matter what. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 134 – The Law of Inevitability

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: acceptance, Agency, awareness, character, clarity, consciousness, consequence, Courage, destiny, determinism, discipline, emotional control, endurance, Ethics, Existentialism, fate, forward motion, grit, grounded wisdom, human condition, inevitability, inner strength, Introspection, Maturity, minimalism, Moral Spine., non-romantic, perseverance, personal law, philosophical poetry, psychological stability, quiet power, realism, refusal-of-illusion, resilience, resolve, responsibility, restraint, RonieDinosaur, Self-mastery, solitude, stoicism, strength without hope, time, walking metaphor, will.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 134 - The Law of Inevitability What was meant to happen
has already passed.
What is unfolding now
unfolds as it must.
What is destined to be Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123 – Collapsed Twice

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, addiction-context, adulthood, Agency, autobiographical, Autonomy, character, cold-clarity, collapse, collapse-narrative, Collapsed Twice, consequence, dignity, Ethics, existential, family-expectation, grief, human condition, identity, Introspection, Isolation, judgment, literary-poetry, lived-experience, masculinity, mental health, minimalism, money-and-loneliness, moral-neutrality, non-redemptive, perception, philosophy, pressure, psychological, realism, recovery, recovery-path, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123, Selfhood, silence, social-pressure, stoicism, survival, testimony, trauma, truth-telling, Value.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123 – Collapsed Twice I collapsed twice in my life.
The first time was at twenty-one.
Family pressed in:
“Why aren’t you studying?
What are you even doing there? Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 96 – Stairway to Hell

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abstinence, Agency, ambiguity, attention, awakening, boundaries, college, consent, consequence, Control, desire, Detachment, discipline, distance, dominance, ego, Ethics, fallout, friendship, Hierarchy, humiliation, identity, irony, loneliness, loss, lust, masculinity, memory, miscommunication, narrative, Observation, perception, performance, power, Pride, reflection, Reputation, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 96, rumor, self-myth, silence, Stairway to Hell, stairwell, status, temptation, transformation, trauma, vulnerability, youth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 96 - Stairway to Hell As an engineering student with an analytical mind-trained in basic physics and mathematics, capable enough-my mind first studied her eyes in the college corridor.
She planted her right hand on the wall above my shoulder, stopping me mid-step as I began descending the stairs in the middle of the corridor.
Jovial, yet forceful.
Why wasn’t she afraid of Ronie?
She was just as tall as I was. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 95 – Reflection: The Lost Edge

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, Agency, character, consequence, deprivation, despair, dignity, direction, discipline, endurance, Ethics, Existentialism, failure, fate, grief, hardship, honesty, human condition, hunger, identity, Introspection, loneliness, loss, masculinity, meaning, memory, Moral integrity, mortality, navigation, perseverance, post-trauma, poverty, realism, reckoning, reflection, Refusal, regret, rehabilitation, resilience, resolve, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 95, self-analysis, Selfhood, stoicism, suffering, survival, The Lost Edge, truth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 95 - Reflection: The Lost Edge Back when youth was still on my side,
rejections stung-but I carried a quiet certainty
that my ethics, morals, and character were clean.
I was not wrong.
I told myself: one day a woman would see it, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 92 – Hunger and Poverty

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, Absence, absence-as-presence, accountability, blame, care-without-reward, consent, consequence, deprivation, dignity, emotional-austerity, endurance, ethical-poverty, Ethics, existential-accounting, Existentialism, Human Cost, hunger, hunger-metaphor, Integrity, internal-law, invisibility, Isolation, loneliness, loss, masculinity, moral choice, moral-cost, moral-hunger, negative-space, poverty, quiet-tragedy, Refusal, refusal-politics, refusal-to-consume, restraint, restraint-vs-desire, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 92, RonieDinosaur, scarcity, self-denial, self-governance, silence, society, solitude, starvation, time, unmet-need, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 92 – Hunger and Poverty The point is—
a man must eat when it is served.
Yet I carry this blame: I did not eat,
though the world knew my hunger—
those who fed me, Read more from here...

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I Did Not Take

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: adulthood, boundary, consequence, denial, desire, dignity, emotional discipline, Ethics, Integrity, loneliness, loss, masculinity, memory, moral-line, Refusal, regret-without-pity, restraint, self-respect, separation, silence, solitude, Take, time, unchosen, unreciprocated-love, youth.

Title - I Did Not Take She told herself it was no big deal-
to touch a friend with too much fire,
to pour her lust like cheap appeal.
I never urged her, never once.
I held my line. I stood my ground. Read more from here...

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Classic Inversion

Posted 6 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: accountability, Agency, Alienation, awakening, awareness, causality, clarity, consciousness, consequence, discipline, disillusionment, endurance, Ethics, Integrity, inversion, movement, Observation, philosophy, realism, resilience, responsibility, Selfhood, skepticism, solitude, survival.

Title - Classic Inversion I have no script,
money unsteady,
the hero dodging every promised date,
the heroine laying down her moral gates-
no skin, Read more from here...

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