Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
On Forgiveness as Release
Forgiveness is widely misunderstood as a gift to the person who wronged you. More often it is a decision about what you will keep carrying.\...
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Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Forgiveness is widely misunderstood as a gift to the person who wronged you. More often it is a decision about what you will keep carrying.\...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Being alone is a fact; being lonely is a feeling, and the two only sometimes coincide. Plenty of people are lonely in a crowded room, perfor...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
We speak of memory as a recording, but it is closer to a reconstruction. Each time we recall something, we rebuild it, and the rebuilding is...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Inheritance is not only money or property. It is also the way you grip a tool, the phrase you use when you are worried, the patience you did...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
The self-improvement industry often assumes a simple premise: that you are a project to be optimised. But endless optimisation can become it...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
We imagine failure as a verdict, but it is usually just information with an emotional tax attached. The information is useful; the tax is op...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Most of us are trained to build for the quarter, the launch, the applause. The metrics arrive quickly and leave just as quickly, and we mist...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
We admire certainty, but much of it is simply the absence of examination. The most confident voice in the room is not always the most reliab...
Richard Nkwenti
@TheEmperor ·
Attention is the raw material of every meaningful thing: love, craft, thought, prayer. And it is precisely what the modern environment is en...