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Learning to set boundaries early. It sets you free from feelings of anguish
Saying no is hard, but resentment is much harder to reconcile with yourself when you constantly allow others to constantly cross them. If we want to be comfortable in our own skin, we are going to have to learn to do a little hard to begin with.
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What experience helped me grow the most?
Kindness. Because, genuine kindness showed me the other side of humanity and gives hope for a better world. To know that there are people who have been hard and gone through their own trials to know that – sometimes, another human needs a helping hand without (potentially) benefitting from you. This is grace, I don’t…
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If I could be someone else for the day?
I don’t know, because I have spent so long searching for myself and who I am suppose to be in this ecosystem, that, given the amount of energy poured into that, I think I’d want to try to play the role of myself for a while? Maybe in another life time and in a different…
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An Open heart letter: Can we talk about courage for a moment?
I used to think of courageous people as having no fear. But what I have come to discover is that, it isn’t that these people don’t possess fear. They have an inherent self belief in the things that they are trying to strive for. “Conviction is the source of courage” You see, I have never…
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My partner’s Lay off omen and what I learnt supporting him through the murky times.
This is a post about what I learnt on how to support my partner during his lay off and job search during an infertile job market, and how compassion helped me see things through the eyes of the struggling.
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Stay present: Don’t worry about the past. And – The future is not here yet.
Stay present. Tomorrow is not guaranteed. The future doesn’t matter. It’s not even here yet. Why worry about something that is in the distant future? Does the God of this earth even look that far ahead? Or is it just me wanting to play a bad form of the deity? Why add more worries to…
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being 40 something felt like a life time away, until it wasn’t.
Discussion piece: This is a post about being in your forties and aging. I have never thought much about aging. When you are in your 20s and 30s, you feel invincible. You’re young and you have the world at your feet. Getting old feels like a million miles away. My twenties were a blur. A…