There was this time when i used to be a very social person. I had my head in every other activity going on in…
Just not every day in my neighborhood. And not with friends of friends.
I really debated long and hard about writing this. It seems like sensationalism. Writing about the tragedy of others. But somehow, I have to spill it.
I’m taking a stand. For the oppressed. We’ve had enough and we’re not going to take it anymore! (Who’s with…
One of my friend asked me this question today and it made me smile.
It made me smile because it reminded me of all the things that happened to me these last 8 months.
Today the allusion of “burn your boats” is not a literal one. The expression is used as a way to leave everything behind and not give yourself an alternative other than succeeding. History has shown us that having no other option but to succeed leads to victory. An example of this is when…
If you’re anything like me you always expect the worst out of situations.
In her poem “We are a System of Ghosts” (Poet Lore Magazine, Volume III Number 1/2, Spring/Summer 2016, p. 11), Lindsay Tigue…
When I was 16, I dreamed of achieving total freedom. Freedom of time. Freedom of money. Freedom from my parents?
Today, I value the existence of constraints, because that is what makes us grow.
There’s a lot going on at the moment it seems, despite the fact that my day to day life *feels* slow.
I rarely had moments like this before, so I’m trying to understand my flow and really feel what it’s like to move at my own pace. I think…
I feel I’m in a limbo sort of zone for the last two weeks. I haven’t been sleeping before 1 am. I have too many things to do and I am just being plain lazy about those. There is also a lot of stuff going on, has been going on for a while. It’s just taking me a while to…
Connection is one of the three contributors to happiness. The other two are growth and contribution.
When you reread a book, it’s like reliving a memory of which you know the general shape, size and contours of feeling, but this time vivid detail again. Although from the last time you’ve read the book, you’ve likely changed and lines that were once important to you are meaningless and…
It amazes me how often I feel like I’m close to finishing something, only for the final 10% to take me hours and hours.
In 2003, around 11pm I headed to Media Play dressed up as Hermionee Granger to pick up my copy of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
I was extremely excited. My first midnight release party and I was only in 4th grade. Harry Potter was my latest obsession and I…
Mostly I see this as a time of social reckoning. The sins of inequality are catching up. Social contracts have been broken and the wrath of populism has been unleashed.
I’m scared shitless when I see the polls. Yet I can’t get myself to believe that we have gone so…