In Defense of Alcohol
Not a health guide. Not a sermon. A cultural and philosophical defense of one of humanity’s oldest, messiest companions.

https://sisyphusrockinghell.co/in-defense-of-alcohol/

#Alcohol #Culture #HumanNature #Philosophy #PersonalEssay

In defense of alcohol

So, it’s hot out there, I’m bored, and if I go to sleep right now I’ll wake up at 2 a.m. feeling like a Victorian ghost with Wi-Fi. Let’s do this. Let’s defend something objectively bad. Or, at the very least, very dangerous. Alcohol.

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The Trap of Carpe Diem
“Seize the day” sounds beautiful until it becomes another impossible demand. A piece about mortality, illness, attention, and modern pressure.

https://sisyphusrockinghell.co/the-trap-of-carpe-diem/

#CarpeDiem #Mortality #ChronicIllness #Mindfulness #PersonalEssay

The trap of carpe diem

So there, I said it: carpe diem is excellent advice. Which is unfortunate, because it’s also terrible advice. Maybe it requires balance… No. Fuck balance. We roll. So, yeah, Tolstoy said it better: “Life is meaningless because death swallows everything.” Good work, people. Happy Monday. Let’s wrap it

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Don’t Take Things Personally, or Allow Me to Be an Asshole
A reflection on boundaries, emotional distance, and the strange freedom of not making everything about yourself.

https://sisyphusrockinghell.co/dont-take-things-personally-or-allow-me-to-be-an-asshole/

#Boundaries #SelfImprovement #MentalHealth #Philosophy #PersonalEssay

Don't take things personally or, allow me to be an asshole

So, you’re back again for more. I can’t say I understand you but — no, you know what? No respect either. This morning, while talking about that piece about misery, someone said one of those forbidden phrases that immediately sets off alarms in my head: “Don’t take things

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On How Misery Scales, or License to Feel Bad
Pain does not need to win a competition before it becomes real. A piece about suffering, perspective, illness, and allowing yourself to feel bad.

https://sisyphusrockinghell.co/on-how-misery-scales-or-license-to-feel-bad/

#MentalHealth #ChronicIllness #ChronicPain #SelfCompassion #PersonalEssay

On how misery scales or, license to feel bad

If you spend some time around people — and I can’t stress enough how much I recommend avoiding this if at all possible — you’ll hear conversations centered on how someone has it bad, and how others have it worse. Just now, I saw a post mocking former child actors

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On Not Being Good Enough
An essay about ambition, self-doubt, perfectionism, and the exhausting little monster inside that keeps asking for more.

https://sisyphusrockinghell.co/on-not-being-good-enough/

#SelfDoubt #Perfectionism #ImpostorSyndrome #Philosophy #PersonalEssay #mentalHealth

On not being good enough

Oh, the quest for perfection. Reminds me of my handsome, arrogant, oh so difficult younger self. He thought - wrongly - that he could do anything. I know, I speak as a 100 year old man, and it’s because I feel just like that. So much has happened. Such

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杯麵與文化認同 / Cup Noodles and Cultural Identity

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https://photomichiblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/cup-noodles-and-cultural-identity/

New blog post: "The Cousin"

Years of attraction building to a threesome. How she went from rejecting the idea to asking us to help her explore her sexuality. Includes foot massage, teasing, and more.

https://tales.tiggi.es/kinkysimmelian/the-cousin

#sex #sexuality #sexpositive #personalessay #threesome #intimacy

The Cousin

My partner's cousin lives at the summer house of my partner. I have visited the place three times over the past three years for vacation....

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The five stages of grief were never the full story. Some losses have no funeral, no acknowledged mourning period — just a collapse that keeps pulling you back. This essay maps that experience onto astrophysics, not for poetry, but because the physics actually fits. Grief bends time. It needs space to move.

https://kalvin.obulou.org/when-grief-behaves-like-a-black-hole

#grief #mentalhealth #healing #psychology #trauma #loss #awareness #personalessay #neurodivergent #autism #recovery #emotions #truth #reflection #humanity #spark

When Grief Behaves Like a Black Hole

I came across a framework that maps grief onto astrophysics — gravitational collapse, event horizons, time dilation — and my first reaction was that it sounds like academic overreach. But the more I sat with it, the more it made sense. Not because the metaphors are poetic. Because they describe something I

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