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travel elitism is a disease (opens the original)
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When I was in elementary school, my dad would tell me stories with spiritual lessons during bed time. A story that particularly stuck with me was one of how Siddhartha Gautama (who would later be known as the Buddha) left his palace lifestyle to explore the world outside of royal grounds. His entire life trajectory changed when he was faced with disease, poverty, and sickness. The Buddha’s strong reaction to this suffering is exactly why he sought to analyze its origins, and figure out how human
I was born an artist, not a content creator (opens the original)
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It’s been 2 years since I’ve been writing this publication. Which is so crazy to think about because I’ve rarely ever mustered the commitment for a long term project. My love for writing began when I was a young child. I dreamed in short stories and haikus, and pored through fantasy novels to derive inspiration for my own work. When I was a teenager, I used platforms like Blogger and Tumblr as personal journal entries. In graduate school, I wrote in a commonplace journal and doubled it as a scra
getting married is a humiliation ritual (opens the original)
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“There is no such thing as a trad wife who is 50+.” This is something I read under the comment section of a viral reel in which an older woman talked about her devastating experience with being devotional to her husband for several decades - only for him to take on a mistress and give that woman what can be best described as “princess treatment” instead. Her righteous anger made my own blood boil, but looking at the comments made me think about all the involuntary trad wives who exist within my
spice corner 018 (opens the original)
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6 ways my life changed after decentering the male gaze (opens the original)
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Dating is boring now. It doesn’t matter how attractive a guy is or if he’s genuinely a good man. I’ve walked out of more dates than I like in the past year feeling uninspired with zero romantic attraction. As someone who used to be boy crazy when I was younger, I never thought I’d see the day when I was the (respectfully) nonchalant one in a dynamic. It now takes me a few minutes to notice an attractive man in the room. I used to be very self-conscious around guys and would adjust my posture and
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