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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 123 – Collapsed Twice

Posted 2 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 116 – Nehru Place, Twenty-Something

Posted 2 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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Job Description

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: authenticity, Backbone, clarity, Description, discipline, earned-ground, equality, evolution, existential-work, hunger, Integrity, Job, masculinity, modern-man, moral-labor, post-romantic, refusal-to-beg, resilience, responsibility, restraint, scarcity, self-respect, silence, solitude, truth-telling, walking forward, witness.

Title - Job Description Some herd cattle.
Some teach scholars.
Some raise children.
Some bear witness to the cost
of standing up and speaking truth anyway. Read more from here...

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Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 12 – The Law That Hunts You Back

Posted 3 months ago under DINOSAUR, Philosophy, Psychology Tagged: Absence, acceptance, awakening, awareness, confrontation, contemporary-writing, dark poetry, desire, despair, emotional depth, emotional-truth, Existentialism, Heartbreak, honesty, indian-poet, indie-poet, inner-demons, internal-conflict, Introspection, loneliness, longing, lost-love, mental-clarity, Mind, minimalist-poetry, modern-poetry, night, personal journey, philosophy, poem, poetic-confession, poetic-imagery, poetry, raw-poetry, realism, reflection, RonieDinosaur, self-realization, shadow-self, snakes, solitude, survival, truth-telling, unrequited-love, vigilance, vulnerability, waiting, writer-life, yearning.

Ronie Dinosaur Chapter 12 – The Law That Hunts You Back The one who carries love inside her chest
will be the only one who truly gives it-
only she can pour it out the way it demands.
So too the one who has lived deep enough,
scarred enough, pure enough, Read more from here...

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