Category: personal lessons
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For what it’s worth
We live in a world constantly screaming for our attention. We’re being asked to download grief and rage at an alarmingly high rate, leaving our nervous systems shot and brains tired, burnt out by the onslaught of bad news that seems to only be getting worse. We are a species of connection, which includes the…
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On nesting syndrome, cycles and the ironies of growth
My 20’s have been an electrifying, hilarious, and sometimes confusing whirlwind of loss, battles with doubt, wondrous euphoria, and restlessness. It’s just so funny that at 28, with so many cycles of growth behind me (and so many more left to go), I am more convinced than ever how much I truly am who I…
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All that I know now
Growing older has taught me how to mark the end of the seasons. I watched the brilliant blue of a summer sky become grotesquely marked by wildfire, felt the suffocating heaviness of heat waves succumb to cold breezes that blew through me as sharp as daggers. I watched as tree canopies transformed from lush greeneries…
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What does it mean to make “the jump”?
People always ask what it took for me to make “the jump”. I’ve had many friends express their admiration for some of the decisions I’ve made over the past year, and in these interactions, intrinsically always attest that they could not do the same in their own life. I feel a lot that in these…
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A final word on a new beginning
Throughout traveling, I always end up leaving parts of myself behind in different places. And at the end of a journey, I’m always a little overwhelmed by how much of me is missing, and how much more of me I discovered along the way. The parts of myself left behind are not lost, they are…
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For a friend
I laid down beneath the rain while the sun disagreeingly continued to shine I watched raindrops bounce off the bodies of leaves and tree trunks like crystals falling from the sky How easy it is for us to get washed away, when we’re unable to take shelter from our own storms, It’s strange how…
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