Category: stories of the real
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Vending machines
The employees trickled into the room by the twos and threes depending on who shared an office with whom. A few went out again to form a short line in front of the vending machine in the hallway. But eventually they all gathered into the windows less meeting room with it’s yellowish walls at the…
Merit Coba
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A life in addictions: alcohol
Initially it was my intention to start my series of articles about addictions with the addiction to alcohol because it is such important one in my family and such a persistent and insidious habit overall. Unlike smoking, the consumption of alcohol is still widely accepted and even seen as a welcome act. There are many…
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A life in addictions: conformity
Perhaps no addiction is as disastrous to the world as the addiction to conformity. Or rather: the desire to force others to conform. Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norm(says the wikipedia). It might sound strange that in a society that seems to underscore the drive to be unique…
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A life in addictions: madness
The pictures are Merit.. Merit is an avatar I made in Second Life. I made Merit represent me everywhere on the internet. You can say Merit outgrew Second Life and lives in cyberspace. Merit is a figment of my mind that is something more than a fantasy. It is a desire. Not that I want…
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A life in addictions: tobacco
Smoking is one addiction I certainly can’t blame my parents for. My family did and does not smoke and I can’t recall anyone ever smoking in the wider circle of our family, except for my granddad on my father’s side that is.. I remember a picture of him sitting in a easy chair holding a…
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A life in addictions: caffeine
One of the saddest things I see in the morning when I travel to my work are teenagers slurping cans of soda. Their day has just started and already they are drinking unhealthy stuff. A large percentages of those cans are energy drinks: Red Bull and the like.. I always associated Red Bull with lots…
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A life in addictions : food
You know, overtime I have gained a lot of addictions. In fact, there are a few I might not even be aware of. There are addictions to smoking, to alcohol, to food, to salt, to coffee, to negativism, to: the list can easily be extended indefinitely. I use the term addiction in a loose sense.…
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