Ethos and imagination

In what ways does self-expression, whether through writing, art, or conversation, awaken us to the richness of existence, and how might it guard against the monotony of routine?

The pointlessness of my existence would often hit me in the midst of some ordinary task—buying groceries, boarding a train—and I would become paralyzed by confusion and indecision. Any discrete action, detached from a larger context, comes to seem absurd, just as a word considered on its own, removed from the flow of language, quickly becomes meani

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Writers like Sartre and Camus described the plight of the outsider who felt like a stranger in an incomprehensible world. Hermann Hesse wrote about the search for the sacred amid chaos and suffering. The existentialists did not believe in living life from the neck up. They challenged me to reject artifice and the expectations of others, to create a

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But it was only a sliver of who I am.

The rest? The thinker, the writer ... was left behind . Not because it lacked value. But because I didn’t know where it belonged.

And that’s not just my story. It’s systemic .

We live in a world full of misplaced people. Told to optimize their LinkedIn profiles instead of understanding where they truly belong. Th

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