SAM Frida

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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...

Root the Cause

Root the Cause

Borders are inventions that became cages, and the harms that spill from them, wars, flight, and the theater of “illegal immigration” are the predictable churn of lines we first imagined, then enforced with walls, checkpoints, and stories about who belongs and who does...

The Narrow Doorway

The Narrow Doorway

Some of us weren’t born into spacious skies; we were born into rooms with no windows, taught to breathe stale air and call it normal, until one day a hairline crack in the wall became an earthquake and everything we’d braced with smiles finally fell through the floor....

The Most Ignored Truth in Human Psychology

The Most Ignored Truth in Human Psychology

Every person walks around believing they know themselves. But here’s the twist: we only exist through reflection, other people’s reactions, tones, silences. You are not who you think you are.You are who you are perceived to be, and that perception changes with every...

Where Is the One Love?

Where Is the One Love?

Jamaica is hurting. Hurricane Melissa tore through the west, leaving behind more than wreckage, it left silence where there used to be music, and fear where there used to be laughter. Some places still have no help, no power, no relief. Just loss. Where is the one...