Dima's NonFic Writing blog

     Am I popular, quirky, or conformist? These are the sort of questions that terrorize our modern society. To answer this specific question requires intense introspection and a deep investigation into the very definitions of the words up to discussion.      Beginning with the first category set out by the question, popular, it is useful to establish what this category actually entails. A quick google search reveals that the definition from Oxford Languages is “liked, admired, or enjoyed by many people or by a particular person or group”. Now, in this investigation we must ask deep questions. Sure, the definition may seem clear and obvious, but what does it actually mean to be liked, admired or enjoyed? “Liking” something could mean a lot of things, does merely having a happy experience with something constitute “liking”? For the sake of this essay I shall use a definition which I have come up with in my own infinite wisdom. My definition is that liking so...

    Fear of the dark is something most people grow out of as they get older, or so I’ve heard. However in this age of people unafraid of the absence of light, one man bravely chooses to be afraid of what nobody else is: Me. Unlike most people, I have been consistently afraid of the dark since I can remember. As one might expect, this fear has some consequences, especially for a late night sleeper like myself.     In the modern day my fear of the dark takes place mainly as a consequence of my self-limited sleep, but even well rested parts of this fear will persist. We’re not always the same person, and alternating a different situation you’ll eventually start noticing the differences. Sleepy Dima is a lot more prone to his active imagination running circles around his mind about some threatening situation than Well-Rested Dima. The mental degradation takes root and thoughts that wouldn’t produce emotional responses under usual circumstances become strong eno...