Indeed, there are so many year-end lists that sometimes, it can be rather daunting to figure out which lists to look at, or where to even begin looking.
I’d highly recommend that you wait until you have some time alone before reading this. Unless, that is, you don’t mind others seeing you get teary-eyed in public.
We fear that we’ve become monotonous, boring, and irrelevant, and so we respond to that fear with irony in an attempt to imply that we don’t care, that we’re not bothered, that we’re not tired.
Beyond the obvious journalistic ethics at play in this tragedy, an event like this naturally causes us to wonder what we’d have done, had we been there.
According to some, extraverts have taken over our churches and our culture, marginalizing introverts in the process. But what if there is no grand conspiracy against introverts?
How do you argue with people who take a different stance than you, be it on childhood vaccines, politics, religion, or any other (controversial) topic?