That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query.
So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter. It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. World, or to see it as a way to grow and make something productive out of it.The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. Matters is what we choose to do with it: choose to see it as the end of our Set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one’s attitude in any given They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one Walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece ofīread. “We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who Was a part of a select few that took a different approach: Sit in a corner refusing all food and wait for their body to give up. And many did make that choice: they would simply He himself had to endure such horrible abuse He was a survivor of four HolocaustĬamps that took the lives of his parents, brother and wife. After the initial pain and trauma of a tragic event has passed, many people report a renewed appreciation for life, much more empathy and compassion for others leading to warmer relationships, a greater sense of personal strength, and increased spiritual development. Indeed, there is a mounting body of research on post-traumatic growth that confirms that what doesn’t kill us really can make us stronger. When that happens, we start seeing challenges as an opportunity to learn and grow. With whatever we’ve been given, because that is all that is within our control. Need to not suffer, we start developing compassion,īoth for ourselves and others. This is an important step to building resilience- to know that no matter what happens to us, we will be ok. What we need, then, is a certain level of detachment: the ability to take neither happiness nor pain too seriously. Hoping for things to always be pleasant for us. We should sink into pessimism or depression about the cruelty of the world.
Human experience of suffering that releases us from its grip. Some people are just a lot better at hiding it than others. We suffer because that’s just what happens to everyone. It’s not because life or god or the universe has singled us out for punishment, or because we are uniquely flawed or unworthy of happiness. When things don’t work out the way we want them to, it’s not because life has taken the wrong track. Acceptance that everyone suffersĪdversity have a way of making us feel so alienated that we forget a basic Maybe we’re just not supposed to be happy. Maybe there is something profoundly lacking in us that made this happen. Or worse, and this is when things start getting really dark – maybe it actually iswhat we deserve.
Yeah, we know that shit happens, but it’s supposed to happen to other people, not to us or the ones we love. So when we do everything right and things still go wrong, we feel cheated. We’re promised that if we try hard, we can have this too. We’re constantly fed with images and media stories of people seeming to We are very attached to the idea that if life unravels as it should, it will be wonderful.īelief. We can attribute much of this suffering to a belief that we must unknow: that suffering is a sign that life has gone wrong for us. Suffering: depressed about the past, anxious about the future. Things that could go wrong in the future: the different ways we couldĮxperience social ridicule, getting physically hurt if we aren’t carefulĮnough, the people that we love leaving us or dying on us. Have gone wrong in the past: how somebody hurt us, how we humiliated ourselves,Īll our regrets at the choices we made and didn’t make. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
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