Is real love based on reality? Part 2
- David Pickup
- Apr 18, 2019
- 1 min read
I believe that there is no such thing as compassion without truth. If someone tells you to be yourself and express your feelings and then gets angry because you've expressed your feelings, is that love? If a parent tells you they love you but have never been affectionate with you till you were a teenager, is that love really? If a person intends fully to love you but fails to fulfill basic emotional needs, is that really love? In terms of need fulfillment, how could feeling love for someone but not giving them what they need, no matter the reason, actually, in fact, be love.
The men and adolescents that come to therapy usually describe one of three kinds of upbringings. The first group don't recall any sustained, emotionally bonded relationship with their fathers. It doesn't matter if the father was just not around very much, just let mom handle all the affection, was so different from the son that he just didn't know what to do, or if he was a complete narcissistic jerk who was loud, shaming and authoritarian. The point is there was simply no real bond between father and son. (Neglect is much harder to recognize than overt abuse.)
Bubble Word Jam started as a random app store download and turned into my small daily brain workout. I like that it uses normal words but asks you to think about relationships between them. Are they ingredients, places, body parts, tools, events, or something else? That question keeps each board interesting.
pixel flow became my coffee game because it starts fast and does not need a huge tutorial. You send colored pigs onto the board, they clear the same colored pixel blocks, and the board opens layer by layer. The part that hooked me was the waiting slots. They look like extra room at first, but they turn into a trap if you waste pigs before their color is ready.
My niece was laughing at me because I could not beat a level in Game is hard, and that is how it became a family challenge. The game looks basic, but it uses stuff most puzzle apps ignore: shaking, silence, screenshots, real colors around you, and random UI bits you can move. It hooked all of us because nobody wanted to be the one who gave up.
I’ve tried a few PDF conversion tools, and I like how straightforward pdftopng is—just upload and convert.
Great insights. I’ve been exploring AI text-to-speech tools like anyspeech lately, and the quality of modern voices is really impressive.