One of my best friends, Oscar Mahoney, who I met now more than five years ago during our first semester at Princeton (specifically through the HUM Sequence where I had my first taste of philosophy), wrote an ode to me a few weeks ago. He wrote it to me without knowing I had been going through a lot of personal distress. It brought a lot of joy to my heart and so I would like to share it here. Thank you so much Oscar. You touch my heart.
As always, I write for myself, but if this helps anyone, that would of course make me smile. The trigger of these thoughts is a conversation with a professor I admire. She asked me why Read more…
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