aging, personal growth, self-improvement, societal pressure, success, thirties

Embracing Your Thirties: 6 Reasons It’s Not as Scary as You Think

Everybody eagerly waits for their twenties because they will no longer be counted as teens. Most of the time, the twenties breeze by fast, and as the thirties near, fear and anxiety start creeping in. Being anxious about this milestone is understandable since it comes with bodily changes and societal pressure. Men may get a ...

March 26, 2024

Nathan Machoka

Friends meet each other for a get-together in an apartment.

High-Achieving Student Becomes Homeless

In 2006 in Jianning County of Fujian Province, a high-achieving student in high school named Xiaoye (a pseudonym) was admitted to Zhejiang University, one of China’s most prestigious and selective schools of higher education. The young man’s parents were very proud when they got the news, but in his second year of college during the ...

February 22, 2018

Armin Auctor