‘Every story is us’ -Rumi The old man looks at me from across the empty bar, and I see his face transform into a big question mark. I ask the bartender to make me a ‘café lungo’. The old man signals for the same. What did I look for, he asks me in his broken […]
“You need to have something called F**k You Money.” I’ll never forget the first time I heard these words. I was in a classroom, away at boarding school, and 16 years old. My teacher, a middle-aged man who had spent his life as a working actor, was truly trying to teach us about the real […]
“For so long I felt that it was about being part of a boy’s club. And now it’s about being part of a girl’s club PROUDLY and feeling power in that. For so long I felt if I can prove that I can ‘hang with the guys’ then I will be more powerful. That really […]
I don’t know where I stumbled across this but somewhere in my arsenal of Google docs and Microsoft Word drafts I found it copy and pasted. I’ve tried to find out more about who said it, where it came from, how it came about, but unfortunately, it’s just one of those ‘in the void’ type […]
Vienna it’s a sense of style, It’s a young girl Her skin is creamy, Mind is calm And she knows about her beauty. Pink and white. 10 pm, smoothly opened eyes Like the windows She lets the air and the light in her houses. Pure and fresh. Golden hour. She is kissing with the sun. […]
I submitted something before this. It was not the right post, this is the right post.
I quit social media at the age of 17 – for four years. I didn’t have a presence on any platform. I was drawn to the sentiment that life is better when no one knows what you’re up to. “Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily […]
I used to think of someone that was thirty as someone old. This, of course, was when I was about eight or nine years old. Why wouldn’t you, when they more than tripled my age back then? My own dad was 30 before I even turned ten, and as the years passed and I became […]