plans
One year ago around this time, I was planning to stop by Singapore for a couple of weeks before embarking on my one-year nomadic sabbatical around Asia. That had always been the…
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confluence
There is the cliché, that money can be earned, but we cannot turn back time. I think most of us are aware of this, but we don’t really feel the actual impact…
the stories in our heads
Lately I’ve been making the observation that I am getting better at stopping myself from spiralling when I have depressive episodes. I am more adept at pulling the right script or right…
accepting flaws and failures
Fragments of my past have popped up lately, to remind me of the immaturity I had in my younger days. We can never truly escape the past. I struggled with it for…
awareness
I think life gets more endurable once there is an acceptance that it is really more cyclical than linear. There is somewhat this expectation that once I navigate past a hump I…
there is nothing simple about being simple
She and I, we were walking by the riverside last night with our hands held tight. She turned around to ask me, if I thought our lives could be this simple for…
on feeling like a perpetual tourist
I spend most of my life feeling exhausted about the world, and then feeling exhausted about feeling exhausted. When I was younger I thought everybody felt this way, only to find out…
what does it mean to be alive
There’s a comic by The Oatmeal circulating today, and I could relate a lot to it. It also reminds me of this article: Meaning is not only about transcending the self, but…
When kids end their own lives
why we are killing them with a flawed narrative
rainbows
she makes me believe in a world of rainbows and a love like ours