I was recently listening to “so far away (by SUGA, BTS)” and the word “dream” came up so many times it stopped me in my tracks and made me reflect. In the last few months, I’ve gone through the realization that the career path I dreamed of pursuing since childhood was perhaps not really whatContinue reading “it’s okay to not have a dream”
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on finding the right ideas to live by
How does one make the smallest decisions in life? How do you decide how to approach a creative project? Why even start a creative project? How do you decide if you should take up the habit of exercising regularly, or drinking tea instead of coffee every day? How do you decide how to treat someoneContinue reading “on finding the right ideas to live by”
11 things I learned about dealing with challenges, emotions, & mental health in 2021 (pt. 1 of 3)
Note. 2021 was an interesting year for me. It brought me a lot of lessons that I had never encountered before and I’m writing about some of them below. Part 1 focuses on dealing with tough times, emotions, the health of the mind, and one’s sense of self 1. 🕯️Deliberately choose hope. Sometimes, you can’tContinue reading “11 things I learned about dealing with challenges, emotions, & mental health in 2021 (pt. 1 of 3)”
Two effective ways to fight off depression
Depression has a remarkable way of making you feel like everything about yourself, your life, and this world is horribly beyond repair. Waves of depression can completely shift your thinking into a negative, heavy, and hopeless state of mind where no solutions to your problems can be seen anymore. Besides trying to take care ofContinue reading “Two effective ways to fight off depression”
ladder rungs
Sometimes, it feels like you’re falling, and the longer you keep falling, the darker your surroundings become. Like the ground just got swept out from under your feet and there is nothing that will help you get back up. Like there are no more options left to try. Sometimes, it feels like there is noContinue reading “ladder rungs”
park bench thoughts
I visited a park last winter on one snowy and early morning, and I wanted to record my thoughts and observations that came up from that visit. This visit was during the days when I was going through a wave of depression that was sucking a lot of hope out of me. So I gotContinue reading “park bench thoughts”
Make Space for New Ideas
Now that I have written my first post and started this blog, I had a bunch of post ideas fly through my head. At one point, I even thought of listing these ideas in a draft document so I could write about them on a schedule, maybe once a week. However, this begs a question.Continue reading “Make Space for New Ideas”
First Entry
Dear Future Self, You’re probably thinking why I am trying to start another hobby when none of the other ones have held up to the test of time so far. There’s a multitude of reasons, but I won’t try to hold myself down to any of them. After trying and “failing” so many times, IContinue reading “First Entry”
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