I am not adept at crocheting; I’d been blindly doing it, not really understanding the flow, yet creating stitches. I even made a few coasters then packed all the tools I purchased into a bag and zipped it up. I decided to get more serious with it recently. I relearnt how to make a slip […]
I often consider the importance of awareness. Why do we offer options, why do we speak of choice or an alternative lifestyle when we all know that our choices are limited and our life here in society has been predestined? Go to school, get a job, get married, buy a house, have children, and retire—these
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I noticed that I’m bored and more irritable these days. It could be that I stopped projecting into the future, both pain and pleasure. I’m just not far into the future anymore. The present is demanding a lot from me. It could also be that I lack sources of entertainment that match the amount of
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Many times, I think about what direction to take for my website—the one place that now hosts all of my writings. This evening, I’m really thinking about some of my feminist values. I’m a struggling feminist. Can you be a radical feminist if you live with a man, what with the unavoidable gender roles and
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At the Inception I was broke and had no steady source of income when minimalism first occurred to me. For context, I’ve always had a decluttering tendency but it was mainly digital inclined. When I had the nudge to take this tendency into my lifestyle as a whole, it was perplexing and I had so
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Stopping makeup and weaning myself of all forms of treatments One thing that served as a wake-up call apart from the awareness of my declining self-confidence, was also minimalism, I was always tardy, had a whole bag of makeup, and was always seeking the next purchase. After finding minimalism and inculcating it, I became serious
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Introduction My experience with acne was a roller coaster of emotions. It was tedious, expensive, and just not a fun one. The beginning Like many teenagers, I had acne. In retrospect, I probably wouldn’t have bothered especially as a kid who wasn’t really into her looks, but people around me had a reaction and it
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Growing up, I almost always saw a red light with my relationships (especially familial), as if my relationships were in danger of being shaken, of crumbling… that they’d leave. How could I control it? As an anxious adult This feeling extended into my romantic relationships. On the one hand, I danced between hyper-independency, not asking
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The long-awaited two-week leave finally arrived and I was prepared, armed with my newly scheduled routine, and surprisingly, it worked. For seven days (as planned), I stuck to my routine. via GIPHY Full disclosure here: it was a 7 out of 10 personal rating, but that’s success to me. Enough to say that it propelled
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