Category: Voices

As you wait for class to end, you decide to take a look at the time on your phone, and it happens to be 11:11.   At once, you are amazed by your absolutely incredible timing. However, was it ever really your timing that made you check the time at this precise moment? This happened because you were at the right place at the right time.   Everything led to your being there at that moment. Everything, from your birth to how unusually early the bus was this morning, is a…

We all go through phases of experimentation; while some stop at weed, for others, it’s just the beginning. Although this article is by no means encouraging people to use illegal substances, those who are determined should heed my advice. I sincerely believe that not all drugs are bad. In fact, some of them, like psychedelics, can be quite therapeutic. Psychedelic drugs come in many shapes and colours, but the ones you are most likely to try are Psilocybin mushrooms, as well as classic LSD. Let’s begin with magic mushrooms; they…

Isn’t Spring essential to survival? I have fallen in love with the idea of rebirth, and I believe the world has too. I was ten years old when Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, the ultimate sacrifice,  in the name of change, and the flames that engulfed him helped ignite the sparks of revolution that we came to know as the Arab Spring. Consequently, I cannot pretend that I knew anything about justice at the time. I can only say that as I aged, I understood (at the most of…

I am. Focus on these two little words comprising a grand total of three letters. When we think of ourselves we rarely even think of these two words, we almost always focus on what comes next. But these two first words are there and they mean something. The same is true when we think about others and the world around us. “They’re this”, “it’s this”, “he’s that”… We don’t realize it but these seemingly banal statements make up the foundation of the human experience. It is indicative of a reality…