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Meditating Mango

personal essays of what's possible when you quit your job (spoiler: you grow lots of mangos 🥭)

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  1. Issue · Aug 29, 2026

    Living with being a disappointment to my mom (opens the original)

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    The path I go down keeps getting narrower and narrower. How do I grieve the death of my past self? Something that has been with me for 3 decades? How do I grieve the connection with my mom, my family, and all those I love? I feel every choice I make is putting distance between me and my loved ones.It was so difficult to be with my family in Vietnam after I stopped drinking and eating meat. Everyone was uncomfortable around me. One night, all of my cousins, whom I have not seen in 5 years, and I

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