by Benard Makaa | Mar 12, 2018 | Culture, Stories
See if you can connect the dots in this puzzle with four straight lines without taking your pen (or cursor) off the paper. The rules to solve this puzzle are very simple. You must draw four straight lines and connect all the points without taking your pen (or cursor)...
by Benard Makaa | Mar 11, 2018 | Stories
Every time I watch this movie, I get a chill in my spine. Here is why, I, like most other ambitious, uptight men tend to put a lid to our emotions. How many potential relationships have I sabotaged by such pretense? We eventually lose out. Here is a story of a butler...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 28, 2018 | Birthday, Stories
“Father of light and life, though Good Supreme! O teach me what is good, teach me Yourself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!” I am...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 21, 2018 | Culture, Health, Psychology
I used to wake up in the middle of the night and wonder, “Does she really like me?” Every single morning, evening, she was all I could think of. I thought I was made for her and her for me. We were a rare, unique, perfect fit. Or maybe I read too much into...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 31, 2018 | Books, Culture
This is a distillation or rather excerpts of Ernest Becker’s Thoughts on Heroism, from the book “Denial of Death”. Download the book here. Becker suggests that the problem of heroics is the central one of human life, that it goes deeper into human nature than anything...
