How do I blog? What can you expect?
My blog posts will sometimes be long, sometimes short or medium. When I write a post, I have two things in mind, the first is to give value and the second is to make it clear. I won’t be focusing on the length, but if it gets too long, I’ll split it up.
When I plan for a post, this is my outline (not all are shown in the actual post)
- The topics and categories
- (some may be 18+ and I’ll make sure you know before you begin reading)
- The lessons and takeaways I want you to have from the post (1-3)
- This will be similar to the summary
- The post
- The immediately actionable items (what can you do as soon as you finish reading)
- A summary at the bottom if you want to read the 3-sentence version of the post
- An extra little gift (I prefer to overdeliver)
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Hey Cosmo, How Was Germany?
I know I’m verbose because I don’t even like reading all that I’ve written sometimes. Keeping this in mind, I’m going to give a high level summary of my three months in Germany. If you give me the time of day, this is what I’ll tell you when you ask about Germany. I want to…
Germany chapter 3
As a recap, there are four gyms within walking distance. I could take a bus/tram to a gym further away but that’s far from ideal. The first gym is a university gym and only for students, the other gym is really hard to get to and only allows a 1-year membership, the third gym has…
Chapter II – Physical Therapy, Becoming a Local, and The Unwelcome Feeling of Failure
Getting to Cyberdyne (physical therapy) was a small task but not easy. After getting off the tram and figuring out which way to go, the next issue was finding this place. There were no signs or anything obvious to tell us that the buildings we walked by had anything to do with anything. We were…
Theseus’s Brother – From a Conversation
If you’re a certain type of person, you’ll be familiar with the ship of Theseus. If not, here’s the basic jist: Theseus has a ship, over time the parts are replaced and after a few years every part of the ship has been replaced, is it still the same ship? Here’s how the conversation wentYou’ve…
Part one – Getting to Germany and The First Injection – or – Testing Your Patience with my Verbosity.
Introduction I have to start out by practicing gratitude because in the day-to-day trenches of life after university (dare I say adulthood), I don’t often reflect on just how fortunate I have been. It’s breathtaking all the individuals who have supported me and gone out of their way to advocate for me. From the smallest…
Difference between ‘get to’ and ‘have to’
It’s worth clearing up this misconception. For no other reason than that I think it’s an interesting way to consider the predicament of a wheelchair user. As most things are best explained through an example, consider parking a car. It’s pretty nice that almost anywhere I go I can drive straight to the front of…
A Thought on Unpredictable Mortality
It’s hard to argue against people who say society is molded by Hollywood movies or shows. Western society especially. In any movie or tv show, when someone is given a time until death, it’s a few hours or maybe a few days. Typically no more than a year. A huge part of this is to…
Nothing Owes Me ̶A̶n̶y̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ Everything
What have I done to deserve anything, good or bad? Almost any belief that anyone has will put the deservedness out of the individual’s control – be it a god or determinism + randomness. But either way, how do we know that we deserve something? Do we actually deserve anything or do things just happen…
The Inevitable Compromises of Wheelchair Life
Pretty much everyone who has been in a wheelchair for a while, especially when there is very little hope for becoming normal, has similar qualities. What I hypothesize is that these qualities are almost inevitable given the very similar situation of most people in wheelchairs and there are compromises that come with them. The first…
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