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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 118 – Neither Nor

Posted 5 months ago under Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: 758 Days, accuracy, Archetypes, Asceticism, Athlete Philosopher, Beyond the Muse, blame, Delhi Poets, discipline, emotional intelligence, Field Report, Five Monasteries, High Character, Integrity, Intellectual Sovereignty, Inverted Casanova, Isolation, Male Experience, masculinity, Mastery, Mental Strength, modern philosophy, Neither, Neither Nor, Nor, obligation, On-Off Switch, Performance Disorder, philosophy, poetry, Post-Illusion, Radical Acceptance, recovery, rehab, Relationship Standards, resilience, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 118, Self-Belief, Self-Forgiveness, Shiva, Solo Walker, Sovereign Partnership, Spiritual Warfare, stoicism, survival, The Abyss, The Lighthouse, The Void, Truth-Teller, Unsold, witness.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 118 – Neither Nor Neither submission nor aggression.
A woman who neither kneels nor strikes.
For the philosopher-athlete forged in one scarred body,
a companion who meets affection and responsibility in equal measure-
no reflex to drag him under, Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur – The Unsold Man

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: anger, anti-compromise, character, College Life, Defiance, detention, dignity, discipline, endurance, Existentialism, extinction metaphor, failure, fate, first-love, hunger, inner flame, Integrity, intent, labor, loneliness, man, masculine identity, Moral Spine., nonconformity, Outsider, personal mythology, poverty, Pride, rebellion, Refusal, refusal to kneel, rehabilitation, rejection, resilience, restraint, road narrative, Ronie Dinosaur, self-authorship, self-respect, silence, solitude, stoicism, strength, survival, The Unsold Man, truth, unreciprocated-love, Unsold, unsold soul, upright man, walking alone.

Ronie Dinosaur (The Unsold Man) (Verse 1) I loved at first sight, got laughed at by noon,
turned the pain into iron, forged muscle from ruin.
College crowned me king, girls kept my seat warm,
but the one who held my heart said, “No, that’s not the form.” Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 – Canteen, First Year

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absolute Zero, Betrayal, burden, Canteen, character, Childhood Scars, College Life, Courage, desire, devotion, discipline, emotional intelligence, Empty Stadium, Exile, Existentialism, fate, First Year, first-love, first-order truth, Ghosting, Gnosticism, Heartbreak, Inner Artist, Integrity, intent, loneliness, masculinity, memory, Penance, philosophy, Reconciliation, recovery, Redemption, rehab, resilience, respect, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117, self-punishment, self-worth, Silent Gaze, Social Contract, solitude, Sovereignty, stoicism, substance abuse, survival, The Ledger, The Void, The Walk, trauma, truth, vulnerability.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 117 - Canteen, First Year So I stood in the canteen,
first-year,
the angriest young man on campus.
Armor on the outside,
an artist locked within. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 116 – Nehru Place, Twenty-Something

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: absence of light, angel chaos, bitterness, Bollywood song, character study, Delhi bus, dignity, emotional trauma, execution metaphor, existential poetry, failed romance, fate vs choice, fleeting connections, grief, Heartbreak, human fragility, Indian city life, inner darkness, lost-love, love without possession, masculine-vulnerability, memory, mental health, modern Indian poetry, Moral integrity, Nehru Place, Philosophical reflection, Psychological realism, quiet despair, rejection, resilience, respect in love, restraint, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 116, scars, self-awareness, self-condemnation, silent witness, social judgment, solitude, survival, truth-telling, twenties, Twenty-Something, urban loneliness, war hero peace, youth disillusionment.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 116 - Nehru Place, Twenty-Something Twenty-something,
college backpack heavy on my shoulders,
T-shirt and jeans,
standing by the front door of a crowded bus
headed to Nehru Place. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111 – Extreme Sports

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Anti-consumerism, Asceticism, authenticity, character, closure, Contemporary India, darkness, dignity, discipline, Divine union, Exile, Extreme Sports, Famine of the heart, finality, first-order truth, Heroism, honor, Human needs, identity, Integrity, Isolation, legend, loneliness, masculinity, Modern monk, Moving on, mythic, philosophical-fiction, Psychological study, Ram and Sita, raw truth, resilience, Roaring, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 111, Sacrifice, Self-Reliance, Shiva and Parvati, silence, Social commentary, soul, Spiritual hunger, stoicism, survival, The dinosaur., The mirror, The path, Transcendence, truth seeking, Unbowed, Walking.

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 107 – What is Bad Luck?

Posted 5 months ago under Existential Rehabism, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, accountability, Agency, aging, Anatomy, bad luck, being, Body, Brutality, Change, Chapter 107., character, Choice, cold, Companion, decay, desire, Essence, fragility, growth, honesty, human condition, identity, intent, Iron, logic, loneliness, Luck, Maturity, minimalism, mirror, origin, philosophy, presence, recovery, resilience, responsibility, Ronie Dinosaur, Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 107, Self-Audit, shadow, silence, sobriety, solitude, Source, Stasis, survival, Syllogism, Transcendence, truth, void, youth.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 107 - What is Bad Luck? What is bad luck?
Wrong time,
wrong place.
Who chose that time, that place?
Who carried me there? Read more from here...

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Hymn to Ronie Dinosaur

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: abandonment, anti-hero, authenticity, bare life, depression, discipline, emotional honesty, endurance, existential, Existentialism, human condition, human witness, Hymn, identity, indie folk, inner strength, Integrity, Isolation, lived-experience, loneliness, loss, meaning, middle age, no romance, no salvation, perseverance, quiet defiance, realism, realism poetry, recovery, rehab, rejection, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur, sobriety, solitude, spoken word, stoicism, stripped hope, suffering, survival, testimony, truth, Walking, walking forward, witness.

Hymn to Ronie Dinosaur Verse 1 In a life monstrous, vast, and cruel beyond measure,
I’ve climbed Himalayan heights, plunged to trench’s dark treasure.
Wrong place, wrong time-life’s brutal lesson taught,
Power, money, status fade; innocence dearly bought. Read more from here...

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The Ronie Dinosaur Manifesto: I See You

Posted 5 months ago under DINOSAUR, Mythopoetic, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Achievement, ambition, being, Belonging, Brutal, character, connection, discipline, disillusionment, emptiness, endurance, Existentialism, failure, grief, Heartbreak, Honest, hope, human, Human nature, I See You, identity, Integrity, Isolation, journey, life, loneliness, longing, loss, manhood, Manifesto, Maturity, memory, pain, philosophy, raw, reality, rebirth, recovery, reflection, resilience, Ronie Dinosaur, searching, shadow, silence, sobriety, struggle, survival, The Ronie Dinosaur, Tragedy, truth, void, Walking, witness.

The Ronie Dinosaur Manifesto: I See You It has been a monotonously vast and monstrously cruel life.
Age is a shallow ruler; it cannot gauge the true depth of a soul, nor the savage amplitude of its emotional tides. I have lived at the summit of the Himalayas and in the crushing black of the Mariana Trench.
Life itself was my tutor, teaching me the brutal price of being in the wrong place at the wrong moment. I learned the cold gulf between power, money, and status-and the fragility of innocence. I learned that golden intent can still yield only lead. Character does not guarantee reward. And my love-a clean vessel-poured itself out and received nothing in return.
To hell with it all. I got nothing back.
She took mine and never returned it. Read more from here...

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