the clarity of a sickness
I’ve been down with a persistent cold for two weeks now. It got better in the middle, but it flared up again twice. I hardly get flus or colds, but this year…
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on self-cannibalising my identity
how our identity can imprison us and what it means to be free from it
rare lucidity
In my last post I mentioned that out of nowhere while travelling I could feel a discernible feeling that my depression had lifted. It returned for a couple of days before and…
social media & my existential loneliness
on my previous dependence on social media, what I sought from it, and why I eventually let it go
Integrating my selves
on integrating the different parts of myself, both online and offline.
2019: to want and need less
why I suffer and how can I live in a way that can do as little harm
My emotional intensity
I am that person capable of tears when I see two stray dogs running in tandem on a street side by side, when my friends exchange marriage vows, when strangers smile at…
Breaking out of the stories we tell about ourselves
on having stockholm syndrome towards the narrative I have of myself
Ways I’ve hurt my relationships
on repeating old patterns in an infinite loop
2018
I write a pair of these every year. I learned last year that a large source of my suffering comes from the the disconnect between what reality was and what I expect it…