Posts in category: personal
The Weight of Unfinished Things
Sometimes what leaves us tired isn't the work we've done, but the things we keep putting off: the unanswered message, the apology, the hard conversation, the decision we're avoiding. Perhaps it's time to close a few of those open loops.
Of Love, Lemons, and the Games We Play
What does a fifty-year-old economics paper about defective used cars have to do with modern dating? Quite a lot, apparently. When nobody can tell sincerity from pretence, trust becomes expensive, honesty starts to feel like a liability, and even people looking for genuine connections learn to play games they never...
Of love and timing
When Love finds you, it's seldom at your best. Rather, it happens upon you at your worst - when you've lost all faith in yourself and your confidence lies tattered in a thousand scraps. It finds you to patiently put those pieces back, one after the other, painstakingly. It finds...
Of new year resolutions (and lack thereof)
Come the last few weeks of December every year and we are faced with a deluge of “new year resolutions” - promises to keep and targets to attain in the upcoming three hundred and sixty five days or so. The utility or veracity of such resolutions is often questioned, especially...
Inspiration
We spend our life in search of inspiration. But inspiration is not something that adheres to a schedule, or a deadline, or a timeframe. Inspiration is that idea gnawing at the back of your head at three am in the morning, which makes you push back the sheets, climb out...