Category: Sugar Words
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What if the Abruptness of Life is a Feature, not a Bug
I have been exploring people who did not have a single trajectory in their careers and lives. People who have zig-zagged their way to reach…reach a place they defined, instead of what they were told. When I look around and find everyone very sure of where they want to reach; being able to define themselves…
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Is Letting Go a Selfish Act?
Letting go is widely romanticised, so much so that when you are the main character, it almost feels altruistic. There is this notion that letting someone go is going to make them better. There is this quote you hear again and again, from movies, from friends, plastered on every book that remotely has the trope…
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Your Belief in Magic Might be the Hurdle
The magic is what exactly? Is it some form of this unknown key to manifestation? Is it the power to concentrate so completely on something that you pull it out of literal air? Is it vision boarding? I believe magic is what is, at the moment, out of your capacity to believe what can happen…
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You Don’t Know the Next Scene Either
What does it mean to be a storyteller of your own life? I do not mean the version where it is over, and you narrate it after the fact. That is too simplistic, too neat, and not nearly as soul-draining. I mean telling the story as you live it, while it is happening, trying to…
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Miss Nostalgia is a Liar
I catch myself ruminating at odd hours, sometimes in the middle of the day, staring at the precipitation on my plastic coffee cup, sometimes as I turn in my bed for the 10th time and watch the first sunrays plotting to enter through the blinds. The time of the day is of no consequence to…
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The wisdom is the kid who asks too many whys
What if the child in you and the wisdom are the same voice? You find yourself surrounded by questions that don’t seem to stop. What comes next? Why doesn’t it feel the way I thought it would? Will it always feel like this? It’s like being on a floaty in the middle of a river…
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Achievement Unlocked: Wait What?!
This blogpost is basically notes from my quarter life circus. Enjoy the clown-ness. All I do is screw it up… I say it with a muffled voice as I try not to cry. Suddenly, being 25 feels like walking carefully through life, like every step could make something crack. Around people, around my ambitions, around…
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Noooo…that’s not what I meant
Do you ever look up at a cloudy sky and feel a wave of melancholy? Sometimes I wonder if the sky is simply trying something new, like slipping into a puff-sleeved dress, or devouring cotton candy with reckless hunger. And when it hears the collective sigh of humans interpreting its mood all wrong… does it…
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Embracing the Messy Middle of Founding
Starting something of my own feels different every time, though I must be honest, it always does. This time I carry the thrill of a beginner and the quiet weight of previous experiments. It is like the moment when a bright eyed crush begins to turn into love: the butterflies still flutter, but you have…