When we suffer, do we make it worse by thinking about it? This question sits at the heart of how we understand the very nature of human pain–and points toward ancient wisdom we’ve forgotten in our modern rush to analyze, optimize, and solve every difficulty we encounter.
Do you ever feel like you are not in charge of your own destiny? Don’t you think that the choices you make are not your choices at all, but rather decisions foisted upon you as if by fate?
It’s precisely this phenomenon that led me to launch this blog, D-INTEGRATION, after two previous attempts fizzled out. In July 2024, I purchased hosting space and a domain name and began to write. I wrote as if I needed it to survive. I wrote multiple blog posts over the course of three months, and I engaged with China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station, Tunisia’s International Festival of Symphonic Music of El Jem, and the strangeness of Drift Phonk music being used in drone footage during the Ukraine War. I also shared a few very short stories (really, more like flash fiction) that I had written.
But then, the momentum vanished.
