Michael Wargr

The one you should have listened to

When a hundred people agree about something and one person doesn't, the one person is usually wrong. Until they aren't, and the cost of having dismissed…

May 23 • Michael Wargr

April 2026

I'm sorry. I meant well.

When people say someone acted with the best intentions, it is usually meant as mercy.

Apr 1 • Michael Wargr

March 2026

The strange mercy of death

Most people treat death as a distant abstraction. I met it at fifteen. Since then, it has never felt theoretical — only close, and surprisingly patient.

Mar 17 • Michael Wargr

September 2025

Stop chasing purpose

We treat purpose like it’s a universal truth, a secret map we’re all supposed to follow. But what if it’s not? What if purpose is just a story we tell…

Sep 3, 2025 • Michael Wargr

August 2025

WTF is self love?

Most people are crueller to themselves than they would ever be to a stranger.

Aug 27, 2025 • Michael Wargr

How fear turns the good in us into corruption

Corruption rarely starts with a bad person. It starts with a good one who has too much to lose.

Aug 25, 2025 • Michael Wargr

How we choose the slaughterhouse

You think you think for yourself. You don’t. You follow, repeat, defend, and never notice the fence.

Aug 5, 2025 • Michael Wargr

July 2025

How to stop your pain

We all have ways of escaping. Habits, vices, addiction, quiet disappearances. Not because we’re weak but because being human hurts. But what if the…

Jul 30, 2025 • Michael Wargr