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January 12, 2022

in case I lose my capacity to write

working on a list of posts I want to write in case I lose my capacity to write anytime soon. we wouldn’t know how much time we have left, so why not…

tagged: death, mortality, time, writing
November 16, 2020

the time never comes for a thoughtful reply

everytime I wait for a time and space so I can be thoughtful when I reply to someone’s comment or email – the time never comes and I end up coming across…

tagged: comments, replying, thoughtfulness, twitter
February 8, 2020

self sabotage looks a lot like self sacrifice

also sometimes self sabotage looks a lot like self sacrifice so people (including myself) think they are being good people by having no boundaries, not knowing how to say no, volunteering to…

tagged: boundaries, martyrdom, self-sabotage, self-sacrifice
January 11, 2020

trying to wipe off the decades old operating system I’ve been installed with

Learning to be happy for me has been trying to wipe off the decades old operating system I’ve been installed with, reformatting myself and trying to install something new. Human beings are…

tagged: beliefs, happiness, operating system
December 10, 2019

it is impt to create obscure stuff

FWIW I think it is impt to create obscure stuff. 1. historically impt stuff are sometimes unpopular in their times, 2. the world is full of diverse beautiful weird nuggets but popular…

tagged: creativity, diversity, history, obscurity, popularity, self-expression, weirdness, wholeness
December 7, 2019

leaders in therapy

It should be a norm for people in leadership positions to be in therapy. 1. leaders have disproportionate power to impact many lives, 2. everyone has blind spots and unconscious emotions 3….

tagged: blind spots, inequality, leadership, norms, power, psyche, psychotherapy, therapy, unconscious
November 20, 2019

full archive of my writing

I believe in keeping a full archive of my writing no matter how idiotic I used to sound but wow I’ve just been frowning so much while migrating them from Medium.

tagged: archival, medium, personal transformation, writing
October 10, 2019

trying to be alive

for me trying to be alive is some version of trying to find some joy and aliveness while somehow bearing survivor’s guilt, complicity and hypocrisy in the midst of injustice, violence and…

tagged: aliveness, balance, complicity, hypocricy, injustice, oppression, survivor's guilt
September 24, 2019

the unbearable weight of being

It is always difficult to accept complicity and therefore, responsibility. It is just easier to believe everything is fated, happens for a reason, etc, than to believe we can have the power…

tagged: environment, power, reality, responsibility, twiiter, weight
September 17, 2019

everything is a system

I dunno, I think a lot about: as long as we don’t clearly understand how everything affects everything and everything is a system, we’ll never have a just and healthy society.

tagged: interdependence, society, systems, systems thinking

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