Choosing Peace Over Performance

Choosing Peace Over Performance

The day before the festive season has a strange stillness to it. Everywhere, the same copy and paste wishes are already rolling out, polished and predictable, like everyone got the same script and hit send at the same time. For the people who truly mean what they say,...
The Lesson Beneath the Mirror

The Lesson Beneath the Mirror

I met a mirror once,dressed in light too bright to look at,promising stillness where my storms were born. I thought it was love,but it was only my reflection, unfinished, unhealed, unlistened.I learned hunger wears many faces.It smiles when you take crumbsand calls it...
Ego, Evidence, and the Ones Who See

Ego, Evidence, and the Ones Who See

What’s happening with the Epstein files is a real-time case study in gaslighting and erasure. We hear all the legal talk and technicalities, but underneath it is something simple and brutal: victims whose reality keeps getting questioned, minimized, or ignored. Can...
Envy Looks Ugly in Silence

Envy Looks Ugly in Silence

You taught me everything I never wanted to know about emptiness dressed up as love. Your “kindness” was a costume, your tenderness a script, your tears a cue for my empathy to rush in and rescue you on repeat. You fed on my naivety and called it connection, studied my...
Refusing the Cure

Refusing the Cure

Inner conflict is often cast as a private struggle, a necessary part of psychological growth, and the engine of self-understanding. But when societies decide that these internal tensions must be managed for the greater good, something fundamental shifts. The 20th...