Darrel Lendon

 “Reading Is To The Mind, What Exercise Is To The Body” – a famous quote by English essayist, poet, and playwright, Joseph Addison, on the value of the mind. Reading is not just about scanning the words until you come to a full stop. You will come to understand that authors do not just one day decide to sit down and write up something just because they want to, or feel like it. Every chapter requires vigorous effort and much more mental stamina than one can imagine. A book contains very strong emotions; the author conceals different representations of his/her soul behind those words.  Books also give the reader a 4-Dimensional perspective to life. Books build a mental checkpoint in the reader's mind, which only filters and feeds vital information to the brain. A reader's perspective on life is very different from a non-reader's. A reader can think outside the box and find a solution to a problem. And he goes away from that box to find one. The solution won't make sense ...

Hammer is to a Carpenter, as Social Media is to the Rest of the World.  This is a derived post from a previous one regarding the metaverse (see below for link). I mentioned that social media was here to stay and we just have to deal with it. Since this is a “social media post” and not a thesis paper, I’ll try not to bore my readers with facts and referencing. This is just a little cherry on the cake. Alright, diving in. Social media is neither good nor bad; it is a tool that helps us with our everyday life. Politicians use it for campaigns. Businesses use it to reach out to customers; artists to their fans and friends use it to communicate. It is the ideal approach when we want to minimize the world. Social media is a tool in life – let’s fix this fact. Just like what a hammer is in carpentry; social media is in life. The hammer does not hit itself on a person’s thumb, the person accidentally hits himself. When something bad happens online, we cannot be pointing fingers at the indu...

 Let's say you want to start up a small business. You have the idea, the capital and the will to do so, but one of your friend comes up and say, "Bro, it's too risky. You might lose everything. I don't think it will work." Not exactly these words but something along that line. He is trying to dissuade you, although he himself might reckon he's doing it for your best interest. This, or maybe a similar scenario where you want to try out something new. Regardless, you don't listen to any person - whether family or friend, don't listen to their advice if they haven't even tried it out for themselves yet. Don't let their fear of failing influence your decision. It's their fear, not yours. It's your decision, not theirs.  Don't let someone who doesn't know how to swim tell you that you're going to drown when you jump in the lake. That's why you have to learn how to swim first before you can venture out to the deep. Magic word ...

 If I ask you "What's the fastest animal on the planet?" and you tell me it's a Cheetah, then come with me. There is a very nice garden I know where we can sit down and have a talk. You see, a Cheetah can travel up to speeds of 109.4 - 120.7 km/h. That is fast enough to outrun any animal on land. So, we can classify that a cheetah is fast. But, is it fast enough to run on water? Or under water?  Behold! That title belongs to the sailfish, who can reach 109 km/h, while the cheetah might as well seem irrelevant in water. But both species are no match for an animal that takes home all the bragging rights on Animal Planet and NatGeo Wild with a clear margin.  Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Peregrine Falcon, who can reach a top speed of 389 km/h at full flight. It surpasses both animals top speed by a margin of 3.2 times, meaning if all three animals were to compete in a circuit sprint, the Peregrine Falcon would've already done three laps while the Cheetah was crossin...

Somewhere out there, there is a person proclaiming to their friends that her/his ex did this and s/he doesn't deserve a next relationship.  For girls it's highly possible, given the fact that this gender sit around baking and what not, get bored with the sight of the oven and then start to gossip about someone's life. Let me use myself as an example, but I'll try my best not to degrade anyone here. Ok so for the sake of some concerned individuals, I will say in this example that my 'ex' is from Venezuela and goes by the name of Sofia. After me and Sofia break up, she decides to pin me up on her notice board to be scrutinized by her Latin American friends. If somehow, a very strong wind blew some of the words they were saying to my ears, honestly I'd be surprised at some things I didn't know about myself. In fact, I don't want to know whatever they said about me, but whatever was said about me, it will all be true according to their own belief. If Sof...

 I think chores are a hard work. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, making your bed, folding your clothes neatly, etc... they at least require a certain amount of will power to get done. But all in all, I also think its just human subconsciousness. At first they seem a great deal of a task, but once you make it become a habit (like I said, at first it might seem a big deal), it gradually fits into your schedule to the point where you might start to question yourself, "Why are other people not doing this? What is wrong with them? Or am I acting weird?" It's like you standing up to do the dishes at your friend's house and they're like "Bro what are you doing? Leave it, the girls are going to wash them."  Or you washing your own clothes and someone says "Wow, you do your own laundry?" I mean once you make these become habits, you will find that it's very funny for someone to ask those kinds of questions. You might end up correcting your friend in the...