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Noahie Valk
Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings. Divided into two sections. 1) Cogito: a diary and 2) IOKTIKN: a collection of standalone essays and short stories.
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I had another extended hiatus. Last weekend was the final of my best friends' weddings. Once that was all said and done, I got sick and have been dealing with that for the past week. I've mostly been sleeping all day and dealing with...
My thoughts have been getting slower, less pronounced. More than that though, there are fewer novel things for me to say as I write more in this public diary every day. I, like many others, have thoughts that get repeated over and over...
I am back after a brief hiatus. I was getting burned out on writing every single day and decided to use the holiday as an excuse to take a break. I feel that I had lost some momentum because I wanted to get started again earlier, but...
I'm feeling uninspired to write today, but that's no excuse not to write. Something will come out of today's entry, but I'm not sure exactly what that will be. Over the last several months, I've been expounding my thoughts on things and...
I held off writing a bit today, mostly due to distractions and socializing. But I'm back to the grindstone sharpening the proverbial blade. I have been circulating back to my thoughts on this post and I believe that I have found the...
I've been reflecting on my sense of masculinity after having some interesting discussions on it. I recently learned an interesting theory on the psychology behind "the ick," which is basically just something that a man does that makes a...
I've been getting better about the discipline of coming here and writing closer to first thing in the morning. I have my routines that I do: supplements, brush hair, brush teeth, deodorant, caffeine, toast. But then once all of that is...
I'm confronted with a direct reality: I don't have anything particular on my mind I want to write about. I've done what I can to cultivate habits and routines to get the spark of writing something every day, but even when I make all my...
I don't want to write today. I really don't. There's such little payoff to doing this, but I've put myself in this box where this is all I'm letting myself do. In my mind, there's a sense of delayed gratification, that all of this...
When I woke up this morning, I had a very interesting feeling. I typically set my alarm for 8 AM. Due to the fact that I don't have a job or any major obligations or responsibilities and the fact that I hate being alive and because of my...
Recently, I've been falling into a bad habit of postponing my writing throughout the day due to distraction and procrastination. I think it's because I put it in my mind that I have to create the "perfect" set of conditions in order to...
There's a certain swelling of emotion that I'm feeling right now. It's interesting because it's a moment that I don't allow myself to write in because I'm typically too consumed in my thoughts, but this time around I am actively riding...
I watched this video summarizing Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and it was a great summary of the whole book. Hegel is notoriously hard to read and I haven't read the book all the way through, but this video was an excellent primer for...
I'll put it out there: I have a hard time trusting The Process. Controversial, I know. But anyway, there's this deep-seated thing inside of me that makes me doubt all the time. I think that it's a fundamental thing that exists in all...
I woke up this morning very sore from all the walking I did yesterday. I ended up walking several miles because I felt motivated to do so, but I feel that there was a certain amount of desperation I was trying to quell yesterday with all...