Gratitude is never easy. In good times or bad.When life is tough, it feels impossible — how am I supposed to be grateful for looming debts? Or for the mass riots happening right now? Yet when life is good, I just as easily forget. I forget that what I enjoy is fleeting, a small spark … Continue reading Sparks
Month: August 2025
Prayers
Another season, another set of storms. But I remember: I don’t need to be stronger than yesterday. I am strong now. I have learned to accept things as they are. I can pass through this too. Happiness is not about what I have lost or gained—it is about being grateful, even in small ways. Pain … Continue reading Prayers
Running-versary
So... This is me with some friends. First time I participated in a running race. My first, and I was doing a 10k at that time! Crazy. And the track was fully equipped with red soil mud! So I decided to make the 19th of November 2022 as my initial running journey. I think it's … Continue reading Running-versary
My quiet empire
Perimenopause, life storms, and the alphabet soup of problems — they’re all in the pot. Spicy, sometimes overwhelming. I never liked spicy food, but here I am, eating from the same pot life keeps stirringfor meSome people dream of building their own empire.Some love to orbit the powerful, willing to sacrifice parts of themselves just … Continue reading My quiet empire
A postcard for me
The rain I'm having a fully paid vacation, 2 nights in a nice hotel with my favorite humans. So I'll anchor myself with all this. I'm here now, I'm savoring it all. 1. Right now, I am safe. I am supported. I am allowed to rest.2. The worries of life can wait. This is my … Continue reading A postcard for me
Needs
Yes. I do.I do deserve a comfortable life. Not a perfect one. Not a luxurious one.But a safe, steady, held one.A life where I don’t always have to brace myself. Where my body can unclench.Where I don’t always have to be the one holding the roof up. I need rest. Not just sleep. I need … Continue reading Needs
A return
There’s a shape my body knows.I didn’t learn it in a class or from a book.I don’t even remember deciding to do it.But I find myself in it — every morning, every night.Balasana. Child’s Pose. It looks simple from the outside — a quiet folding inward.But from the inside, it feels like something else.A bowing. … Continue reading A return
A Less Famous Compass
Not everyone is born with fire in their bones.Some of us were shaped by quiet rooms,by soft mornings, by the absence of noise. We did not learn to compete.We learned to observe.To sit with the day as it is,not as something to conquer. While the world praises the driven life —the rising, the reaching, the … Continue reading A Less Famous Compass
Rebel
Today, I found myself wondering — why is it so easy to overthink everything, but so strange to feel calm?Why does peace feel like something we need to earn, while worry shows up uninvited and makes itself at home? We start to believe that overthinking is normal, and being at ease means we’re being careless. … Continue reading Rebel
Le fin
Dear Death,I don’t know how to begin with you.You are the shadow I dare not name too often,the visitor I hope comes late,the mystery I both fear and, strangely, respect.They say you are the end,but some say you’re a door.Some say you bring peace,others say you’re the thief in the night.All I know is this:your … Continue reading Le fin
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