Fear isn’t in the Thing.It waits for the moment you notice. Let me show you what I mean. The spider had been in the room the whole time.While I slept, there was no fear. But the moment I saw it, my chest tightened.Awareness switched on, and so did the story in my head. What if […]
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I laughed.Not because it was funny.But because I didn’t know what else to do.That’s how the impact of careless jokes sneaks in. This was years ago,something I almost forgotuntil I saw it mirrored in others. What They Said, and Why It Landed One of my cousins joked about my shaved head: “You’ve come far away
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Not beautiful in their behaviour,but in the kind of clarity they bring. Bullies.Friends who leave you out.A partner who keeps rejecting your needs. They don’t hide how they feel about you.And that honesty, even when it carries hate, can be a strange kind of gift. Knowing where you stand is a strange kind of peace.There’s
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Some friendships don’t end with shouting — they end with silence, distance, and decisions that are hard to take back.This is a letter to the good friend I lost, a long-time companion who was also my cousin.I’m not sharing it to fix the past, but to express what still remains in my heart. This letter
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A reflection on how to survive emotional pain — and why making it through the first wave, no matter how long it lasted, is already a form of healing.We often forget how much strength it takes to survive emotional pain, especially the very first wave of it. One random day, while teaching my SEN class,
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Ever had a crush that looked perfect from a distance,like “never seen, never heard”? Maybe you didn’t know them at all, but you still felt they were ideal.Maybe you did know them, but life showed you more. Have you ever had a crush like that,“never seen, never heard,”and somehow they still checked every box? They
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