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"Blood is thicker than water" is a common proverb shared and spread amongst families all across the globe. Although I was taught it conveys the importance of family over friends, there was a loose screw that refused to fit the meaning together with those words. Parents would tell you that "blood" is a metaphor for family while "water" is the metaphor for friends. However, such explanation didn't make sense to me because I have never heard of 'friends' being personified by water. Another thing that disturbed me is the idea of giving importance to the family no matter how dysfunctional or detrimental it could become to one's mental state. Why

A humdrum existence has taken a grip of my lengthy neck, ready to slam my face into a cold bucket of rain water, draining the remaining bubble of air which symbolizes the hope I have stored in the alveoli located at the very end of my lung. Left lung or right lung? It doesn't really matter the way it didn't matter if you're a right or left hand user. After watching that RSAnimate - The Divided Brain, I am torn between the satisfaction that the right brain-left brain theory initiated by Roger W. Sperry in the 1970's is flawed; I am torn between that satisfaction and the loss of identity. As a child I've been taught that my dependence on my l

:bulletred: Of Art :bulletred: "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Emile Zola (1840-1902) "Give me a museum and I'll fill it." - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) "We have art to save ourselves from the truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) :bulletyellow: Of People :bulletyellow: "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a