seasons
My life changed when I read The Power of Habit sometime in 2012, since then I’ve been dutifully making my bed every morning when I wake up. When life is full of…
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Practicing the ability to wait
being unable to wait = misery
moments of awareness
I had a very lucid moment last week: in the middle of a conversation with my partner, I told her I feel like the luckiest person in the world – because I…
the sound of nature
I loved “The Power of Myth” by Joseph Campbell ever since I read it in mid-2015. I won’t be able to describe the book enough to do it justice of what it…
hopeful existence
the hope to me is in colours being placed where they could not exist
bearing witness to our own pain
I was reading “Joy on demand” by Tan Chade Meng, and I came across this passage which made me pause, reflect and break a little bit: “…if you can witness all that…
the luckiest
The story goes: my would-be partner, when we were just briefly acquainted, read an essay I wrote about being chronically depressed and suicidal. She was so struck by it, she did something…
emptiness
Imagine if you were a mouse, and all your life you have lived in a maze. Every day you were given countless tasks to do, and for every task done correctly you…
disability
Lately I’ve been thinking about myself and my chronic conditions – I refuse to call them illnesses sometimes, maybe that is the problem – wondering what will I do or become if…
Life is absurd
sometimes there is just no justification or meaning
