Sahir Dhalla
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Make Tiny Changes For Remarkable Results
Everyone has this moment at some point where you want to change some aspect of your life. Maybe you want to quit smoking or eating unhealthily, or you want to pick up reading and exercising regularly. Or maybe it’s something as simple as waking up a few minutes earlier and journaling for a bit. We all have these moments.
By Sahir Dhalla2 years ago in Motivation
Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
If you’ve decided you want to change your life, chances are you’re probably thinking of making major changes to your lifestyle. Perhaps you’ll start running every morning without fail for an hour, or wake up two hours early each morning starting tomorrow.
By Sahir Dhalla2 years ago in Motivation
Why Having Children is Morally Wrong
Think of the last day you did not suffer. A day where you felt no hunger or thirst, you didn’t feel too hot or too cold, or when you didn’t feel tired all day. Try to remember a week where you had no itches or allergies or any frustrations at all. Chances are, you’ve never had days like this.
By Sahir Dhalla2 years ago in Humans
All Your Actions Are Selfish
Acts of kindness exist all around us. From the stranger holding the door open for you to the person giving up their seat on the bus for a pregnant woman, kindness is everywhere. But are these people really being kind, or are they truly just selfish?
By Sahir Dhalla2 years ago in Humans
- Top Story - November 2021
The Lies Everyone Tells You About UniversityTop Story - November 2021
For years before I went to university, I had been told by countless adults that my studies were this time to be dreaded, that I would have no free time at all, no social life and friends, and immense stress from the workload.
By Sahir Dhalla2 years ago in Education
A Society That Allows Slavery
Utilitarianism is a moral theory that argues that the right thing to do will always be the action that creates “the most good for the most amount of people.” But while this does seem like a solid moral basis, we find that it often suggests we commit actions that we might find quite reprehensible, such as slavery.
By Sahir Dhalla3 years ago in The Swamp
Democracy Has Failed Us
For most of our lives, we have been told that democracy is the best governmental system. Any other system that has even dared to go up against the “freedom” that democracy offers has been villainized and attacked relentlessly until it crumbles. And when it crumbles, we are told that it crumbled because of the system it was, not because of the outside forces that wouldn’t allow it to exist.
By Sahir Dhalla3 years ago in The Swamp
Why I Stopped Planning My Stories, and You Should Too
For the past couple of months, I had this long list of ideas of articles that I would one day write. And yet, these articles weren’t being written. I had no reason not to write them; I mean, I had thorough plans and clear outlines with all my research done for many of them, all I had to do was write. So why couldn’t I do it?
By Sahir Dhalla3 years ago in Journal
Do Vaccine Passports Really Violate Your Rights?
Over the past year, we have seen an extremely vocal minority speaking out against masks and vaccine requirements, and this has increased massively in the past week here in Canada with the introduction of vaccine certificates.
By Sahir Dhalla3 years ago in The Swamp
Is Anything Real, Or Is This Just Fantasy?
What is it that you know, for sure? You know that you have a brain and a heart and other organs, that you drink water to survive and so on. In other words, you know about an “external world” of sorts that is outside yourself. But would you say for sure that you know all this about the external world.
By Sahir Dhalla3 years ago in Psyche