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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111 – Extreme Sports

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111 - Extreme Sports When even character cannot clear the path,
the spirit directs.
Better the slow famine of the upright heart
than the quick feast of a bent knee.
Let others gorge on counterfeit warmth; Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 110 – Die Hungry Rather Than Kneel

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: addiction, Betrayal, bitterness, Bodybuilding, Boxer, Caretaking, Choice, Corona, Die Hungry, dignity, emotional-starvation, Engineering dropout, Father-son relationship, Financial success, Forging strength, grief, Hard work, Heart attack, honor, identity, Integrity, Iron character, Isolation, kneel, Lockdown, loneliness, longing, masculinity, Memories, Millionaire, Mother’s death, Names, No compromise, Nursing, Online dating, persistence, Poverty of soul, Pride, Public humiliation, purpose, raw, recovery, Redemption, rehab, rejection, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 110, Rust, Sacrifice, Scams, School rejection, Self-made, self-respect, sobriety, Social status, solitude, stoicism, success, survival, The past, The price of love, Thirty-seven, trauma, truth, Unfiltered, unrequited-love, walking alone, wealth, work-ethic.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 110 - Die Hungry Rather Than Kneel I was starving for affection-
simple human touch,
not just flesh-
when I considered paying a woman for sex.
It was the morning after my father’s heart attack, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 109 – The Anti-Thesis

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: ambiguity, Betrayal, bitterness, Brokenness, closure, college romance, coming-of-age, confrontation, devotion, ego, Emotional baggage, Emotional manipulation, Empty seats, Fear of commitment, gaslighting, Ghosting, growth, healing, Heartbreak, Hidden pain, identity, Intimacy., loneliness, Loss of innocence, masculinity, memory, Moving on, nostalgia, obsession, Perspective, poetry, power dynamics, reflection, regret, Reputation, resentment, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 109, Rumors, self-destruction, silence, Social status, stoicism, symbolism, The Anti-Thesis, The past, Toxic relationships, truth, unrequited-love, Unspoken words, vulnerability, yearning, youth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 91 - The Unpermitted Path

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 109 – The Anti-Thesis It wasn’t that I failed to win you,
or that I lacked permission-
you had already written the letter yourself,
granting full access to raw lust,
to be taken without hesitation. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 108 – The Gift I Never Unwrapped

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, accountability, attitude, Betrayal, boundaries, Brothel, Chapter 108, character, Choice, consent, cynicism, discarded, disillusionment, Engineering College, equality, Forty-two, gift, heart, honor, Human Responsibility, Innocence, Integrity, intent, irony, Irresponsible, logic, masculine-vulnerability, masculinity, memory, naive, narrative, pain, philosophy, Practicality, presence, reality, rejection, respect, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 108, Ruin, Satellite, Seduction, self-respect, silence, stoicism, Submissive, The Gift, truth, Unwrapped, Unwrapped Gift, withdrawal, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 108 – The Gift I Never Unwrapped After giving you so much love,
after caring so deeply,
after orbiting you like a satellite,
after never once demanding you from yourself-
I kept you safe, like a gift saved for the perfect moment, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 104 — Restraint

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: austere lyricism, character, Control, cult poetry, Delayed Gratification, desire withheld, devotion without possession, dignity, discipline, emotional minimalism, emotional-austerity, ethical desire, ethical eros, existential romance, Existentialism, grief addressed sideways, hunger, hunger-metaphor, imagination, inner law, Integrity, Interior Monologue, intimacy without touch, loneliness, longing, masculine restraint, masculinity, memory, Mental Mastery, modern asceticism, Moral High Ground, moral tension, noncommercial poetry, nonperformative love, Originality vs Copy, post-romantic writing, principled refusal, Psychological realism, psychological-poetry, quiet intensity, Refusal, refusal culture, relational philosophy, restraint, restraint as power, restraint ideology, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 104, self-awareness, self-denial, slow burn, South Asian Literature, tension, The Godown, The Zeigarnik Effect, thirst, unconsummated love, Unfinished Business, unmet desire, unsentimental-love.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 104 - Restraint A hungry stomach never forgets why I let her go.
An upright character remembers-down to the last detail-why I walked away.
My heart aches
not for what happened,
not for what might have been, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 97 — Reflection: Misfired

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Artist vs Man, Branded Useless, College Memories, coming-of-age, Confessional, Consent Culture, desire, Disconnection, emotional intelligence, Emotional Void, Four Years of College, Fragmented Love, Heartbreak, Helipad Metaphor, High Character, Hourglass, Human Connection, identity, Integrity, Interior Monologue, Intimacy., justice, Literary Grit, Lust Train, Lust vs Love, Male Consent, male vulnerability, masculinity, Mirroring, Misfired, Misunderstood Men, Modern Dating, modern-poetry, Narrative Poetry, philosophical poetry, Psychological realism, Psychological Warfare, raw emotion, rejection, Resonance., respect, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, self-knowledge, Self-Reflexive, Sexual Ethics, The Artist’s Voice, The Long Game, trauma.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 97 — Reflection: Misfired I was afraid-
how do I cup her face in my hands
and whisper, Stay quiet. 
Let me admire what I have.
She pressed closer. 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 93 – What a Wonderful World

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Alienation, bleak clarity, brothel narrative, Capitalism, class consciousness, commodification, confessional poetry, contemporary poetry, death and illness, dignity, emotional deprivation, emotional-austerity, emotional-truth, ethical tension, Ethics, existential literature, first-person narrative, grief, honesty, Human Cost, human worth, Indian English poetry, intimacy without love, late modern poetry, loneliness, loss, masculinity, money and value, moral accounting, moral injury, nihilism resisted, personal philosophy, philosophical poetry, power dynamics, quiet rage, realism, realism-over-romance, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93, silence, social critique, social hypocrisy, solitude, solitude ethics, survivor voice, transactional intimacy, trauma writing, unsentimental writing, value collapse, vulnerability, Wonderful World.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 93 - What a Wonderful World My mother died two and a half years ago.
My father just suffered a heart attack.
At thirty-seven, single, I felt utterly unable to cope.
When I headed to the brothel, I knew exactly where I was going.
I kept telling myself: They don't give love; they sell what you pay for-and that's all you'll get. 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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