HeyJaredthe swapz journal
the swapz journal is my digital scrapbook — a quiet corner of the internet where I write about the books that shaped me, fiction that lingers in my mind, college memories, and excerpts of fantasy. If you live between paragraphs and daydreams, welcome home
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Haunted By a House I left (opens the original)
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“You can take the girl out of the house, but not the house out of the girl.”Well, it’s been 2.5 months since I left my house for my job. I changed cities, and even a state. A little dramatic, if you ask me. But then, a girl should do what a girl should do to keep herself sane. I thought distancing myself from the problem would help me detach from it. But what I was running away from was not a problem. Not a problem that took a day or two to get resolved. It was a system built during my lifetime,
500 miles away from home (opens the original)
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Lord, I am 500 miles away from home.Your twenties bring with them a yearning for freedom unlike anything else. Bonus points if you’re a woman growing up in an Indian household, where freedom comes with several checkpoints and limitations. Curfews, in-times, permissions, location sharing—all that just to grab lunch with friends. And as a 21-year-old girl, I was obsessed with getting out of my house.This yearning wasn’t just an aftermath of leaving my teens behind. The desire to leave home had bee
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