Check out my appearance on “The Free Bin Podcast” with the link below. “Thanks to a fortuitous geographical mix-up, Harrison has a chat with self-published author and medical student Vinnie Grewal from Toledo, Ohio. Vinnie’s current project is a series of novels with overlapping events and characters. Here, he shares details of his inspirations, philosophy,… Continue reading The Free Bin Podcast
Author: Vinnie Grewal
The Physician’s Role Regarding Empathy
What is the physician’s role regarding empathy? The words “empathy” and “physician” go hand-in-hand with our expectations of the world today. From weeding through the applications of potential medical students to a patient evaluating which attending physician they may want as their primary care doctor, empathy is viewed as a necessity in the eyes of… Continue reading The Physician’s Role Regarding Empathy
On Art as the Meaning of Life
There is a tingling drive that emerges within a corner of all of our consciousnesses every so often that prompts the phrase: “What is the point?” This question has been attacked from all sides ever since consciousness and wonder arose in the human mind. Answers to this have come from various religious ideologies, spiritual beliefs,… Continue reading On Art as the Meaning of Life
Story of My Life
The 1988 novel Story of My Life by Jay McInerney, released in 1988, stars the acclaimed Alison Poole who is a twenty-year-old college girl living in New York City. Her life consists of drug-induced binges of the highest hedonism with friends who swap clothes with her as often as they meddle with each others’ partners… Continue reading Story of My Life
Pondering a Golden Starlet
You’re a starlet in golden form. Irresistible to eyes wandering. An enticing aura keeps you warm. And I stand still, merely pondering. The way you speak is of singing rain. The pitter-patter loops endlessly to keep me sane. You throw your glances to tease my advances. And your dances glitter my stolen chances. In another… Continue reading Pondering a Golden Starlet
To be Human is to not Limit One’s Humanness
Stoicism is a complex ancient philosophical system that millions of people throughout its multi-thousand-year history have taken up into their lives to help improve themselves. Its core belief consists of aspiring toward a path of virtue using rational, intellectual means. Famously, it is a philosophy whose members have included people from slaves to emperors, exemplifying… Continue reading To be Human is to not Limit One’s Humanness
Plato’s Democracy Reevaluated
The Values of Plato’s Democracy Make for an Imperfect but Sustainably Positive Civilization… In Book XIII of The Republic, Plato works through various forms of government, each of them a version decaying from the last toward the utmost corruption of tyranny. Each government type also has a comrade of a specific type of person who has… Continue reading Plato’s Democracy Reevaluated
Lolita
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1955, is one of the most controversial novels to ever exist. The subject matter is of the late-thirties man under the pseudonym of “Humbert Humbert” being entirely infatuated with the “Nymphet” Dolores (Lolita) Haze. A “Nymphet” as Humbert so “pleasantly” calls his subjects are girls between nine and fourteen years… Continue reading Lolita
On La La Land
Come back. Let me help you. Why can’t every person be able to follow their dream in life? It is utterly unfair. Am I not following my dreams right now? I am at a turning point. Why couldn’t she do it? I don’t know. Is she lost? Yet, I shouldn’t have to think of her.… Continue reading On La La Land
Poem on Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus”
The universe gives us almost everything. One may ask the universe if there is meaning in life. The universe gives no answer. There is no designed meaning. One must, therefore, make their own meaning. Or live with no meaning (nihilism). Or commit suicide – the only certainty in life is death. One has, therefore, the… Continue reading Poem on Camus’ “The Myth of Sisyphus”