2 Cents Movement Spoken word performers Idrees Saleem and Derron Sandy collaborate to open TEDxPortofSpain 2016! Idrees Saleem Born in the town of Maloney Gardens, Idrees Saleem found himself 6th of 10 kids, smack in the middle of an embrace of sibling, born to humble Muslim parentage. During his earlier days of development, Idrees would always prefer the background, shying away from the stage or public eye. Somehow, somewhere…
Reality deeply sunk in one morning while I was scrolling through my Facebook feeds and after being reminded of a few of my old classmate’s birthdays, I did what most people would do, macociouly scroll through their profile and observing how life has been treating them after all these years. Pictures of beautiful homes, significant others, children, travel pics and brand new luxury SUVs flooded these profiles and I guess…
Reality…what we know to be real and true. This word reality has a comfort, a stability, a fixed feeling to it. Unfortunately, the perception that there is some comfort in the traditional concepts of reality defies the very existence of our modern civilisations. Man is defined by constantly questioning the true, the possible, the real, and modifying the boundaries of this concept. Now, this may sound like existential mumbo jumbo,…