It’s intriguing how we tend to think in binary when life and everything within could be approximately indefinite. I used to think that life only consisted of everything dichotomous: black/white, left/right, pretty/ugly, smart/fool, neurodivergent/neurotypical, religious/non-religious, native/non-native speaker, and the rest of it that comes to your mind. Yet as I…

There is an unspoken rule that interacting with strangers is deemed improper in our current status quo. I take a neutral stance on it, tho I still rage upon the unsafety of a woman in outer shelter from catcall, and harassment to just safety issues in general which makes it…

Last week, my boss gave me a very generous unsolicited compliment. I shrugged and smiled, giving my thumbs up on the zoom screen as my way of saying thank you. My manager then said, and I quote, “Putri can’t accept compliments, she would be really socially awkward about it.” That’s…

Life is like sailing a boat. Sometimes it’s a wreck most of the time it’s stormy and you don’t know where are you heading. But as the sun rises opening a new day, you will always see a glimpse of hope on the ocean to the unknown. It was 31…