Tag: relationships

  • Humanity’s Hubris

    Many of our world’s problems are caused or exacerbated by pride. There is often a stubbornness that makes people unwilling to listen before they’ve already decided or unwilling to concede because doing so feels like losing. I see it in friendships that fractured over a mistake someone was unwilling to apologize for. I see it…

  • If I could talk to Paul Kalanithi

    After sobbing wretchedly through the last chapter and the epilogue of “When Breath Becomes Air,” I sat for a while in silence, trying to absorb the weight of this incredible person’s life. As an aspiring physician-scientist who can’t stop turning over unanswerable questions, his words resonated with me. But there was one thing I couldn’t…