Month: March 2021

I recently came across a post on Instagram about how we shouldn’t keep ourselves from eating the delicious traditional foods we grew up with on account of trying to be healthier, as there is nothing wrong with our food. While I agree with the fact that food is indeed just food, I am not on… Continue reading Eating

We all have such limited time on this Earth, we ought to make the most of it. As I was walking home from work yesterday, I saw blood smeared on the road, and then I saw the creature it belonged to. I’m not even sure whether it was a cat or a small dog, but… Continue reading Time

Three years ago I was on the verge of culminating my master’s degree. Three years ago I was being “dumped” by my university besties on account of being too toxic. Three years and five days ago, my father passed away unexpectedly from a stroke. No one had seen it coming, yet it couldn’t have been… Continue reading Fear

When I was in the third grade, my appendix decided it was time to come out, so it got infected, which resulted in nine-year-old me getting surgery. I remember being terrified, it was all so sudden, a simple coughing test and that was how they determined that I needed to have surgery right then. I… Continue reading Scars

By definition, an illusion is said to be a distortion of the senses, how our brain takes the data around us and creates a different story than what is really there. It’s so easy to fall prey to such a game, thinking up stories about what could be, instead of what really is. Perhaps at… Continue reading Illusions