Alexander Mind
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The Speed of Life
We live in an age where speed is celebrated. Faster internet, faster success, faster replies, faster results. From the moment we wake up, life seems to press a silent accelerator. Notifications buzz, deadlines chase us, and comparison quietly sits in our pockets. The speed of life keeps increasing—but the quality of life often does not. This raises a powerful psychological question: Is moving faster actually helping us live better, or is it slowly draining the meaning from our lives?
By Alexander Mind8 days ago in Psyche
To Dust
The world ended on a Wednesday. Not with fire or thunder or a sudden vanishing—just a quiet, almost polite collapse. The sun rose pale. The air tasted metallic. And the dust, fine as ash and soft as winter breath, drifted from the horizon like a slow-moving tide.
By Alexander Mindabout a month ago in Fiction
Quit the Begging
There was a time when Wikipedia felt like a miraculous corner of the internet—a place where knowledge was free, open, and beautifully chaotic. Volunteers wrote, edited, cleaned up citations, and battled vandalism like digital knights protecting an ever-expanding kingdom of curiosity. It felt noble. Pure. A community-driven triumph.
By Alexander Mindabout a month ago in 01
Wack Friday
I swear, every year it’s the same nightmare masquerading as an event. They call it “Black Friday,” but where I come from, it should be called Wack Friday—a festival of broken promises, broken carts, and broken patience. It’s that one day when the world collectively loses its mind over discounts that are supposed to be “once-in-a-lifetime” but really feel like an eternal loop of mediocrity and disappointment. And let me tell you, witnessing it is like trudging through a swamp—a sticky, chaotic mire of consumer greed, poor planning, and emotional exhaustion.
By Alexander Mindabout a month ago in The Swamp
Love and Marriage with Pride
In the intricate dance of human relationships, love often arrives unannounced, tender yet persistent, demanding vulnerability in return for its rare gifts. Marriage, on the other hand, is its deliberate cousin—carefully structured, ceremonial, a social contract as much as an emotional one. Witnessing these forces collide through the lens of human pride reveals a subtle truth: love and marriage are not merely about devotion to another person—they are about devotion to oneself, and to the preservation of dignity within intimacy.
By Alexander Mindabout a month ago in Pride
FPS: Harvest of Memory Challenge Winners
Every challenge on Vocal comes with its own mood, its own rhythm, its own unspoken atmosphere. But Harvest of Memory was different from the start. It wasn’t just about nostalgia or looking back. It wasn’t about childhood photos, or journals tucked in drawers, or the kind of memory that sits politely in the living room.
By Alexander Mindabout a month ago in Journal
This Was My Best Fucking Piece (And It Still Lost)
There’s a particular kind of heartbreak that only writers know— the moment you hit “submit,” whisper a shaky prayer to the literary gods, and then, days or weeks later, open an email that starts with the word “Unfortunately.”
By Alexander Mindabout a month ago in Writers
