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Philosophy and spiritual transcendence???

I was SPENT.

I was ruined. It was 11 pm, I don't know what to do, my head felt heavy but my spirit blank, I'm revolted to the core, so foreign to this feeling that I didn't know what to do, like do I just stare blankly or distract myself or write this out--but I couldn't even form coherent thoughts. A strong uplifting, a continuous…

*Yellow Rose and the Illusion of Opportunity*

"There is more opportunity there!" Screaming in a place that's whittled from corruption. You echo it like a prayer as you brave a risk-driven journey towards a strange land.

"There is more opportunity here!" Screaming in a place that does not hide its plans to estrange you. You echo it like a prayer to realize greener pastures and a life that's more worth living.

The underprivileged are left to be stuck fighting against…

Let's all take a step back and dip ourselves into introspection. Are we alright with our relationships? Is it helping me become a better person, am I helping them become one? What have I gained in keeping it as it is, what have I neglected? Can we be ourselves and bloom in each other's gardens or are we wilting in parasitic symbiosis?

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Liz and the Blue Bird zooms into the sensitive grounds of codependence with an aim to break…

They took the song quite literally and I did not expect it.

This film hinges on key lyrics of Christmas jingle monolith "Last Christmas" sung by Wham!. Since the beginning it doesn't hide how direct it attempts to associate the story with the title through Kate's fangirl energy for one of the duo's members George Michael, and since then I had my expectations leaning at the lower boundary. Borrowing a song for the title already rings bells of predetermined assumptions…