Wait, no, it’s not my birthday. And I’m not turning 22. It’s a line from Taylor Swift’s song titled 22. I don’t know about you but I’m feeling 22 Everything will be alright if you keep me next to you You don’t know about me but I bet you want to Everything will be alright if…
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Growing Up #11: A Prose on Shopping
I could walk the entire day, stop for a few minutes in between, munch some food, and still be upright – ready to dash the next store. By the looks of it I really enjoyed shopping. From cat print shirts to neatly pressed coats, the energy slowly dwindled away. I don’t dash into store after…
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Growing Up #10: What Have We Done to Our Homes?
I’ve always been a fan of retreats, but then it struck me this time. What have we done to our homes that we must go far far away from it to find our peace back? Isn’t home supposed to be the inviolable place we rested our minds, the impermeable barrier that kept us safe, the…
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Growing Up #9: ‘Tis The Season of Goodbyes
August – the eighth month of the calendar, the month when Summer isn’t gone yet, but the winds begin to feel chilly, a telling sign of how we have lived past over half of the year; a sign of the coming cold in the horizons. August – a month of goodbyes when the suitcases are…
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Growing Up #8: Some infinities are bigger than other infinities
It’s John Green for you, from The Fault in Our Stars: Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. I recently rediscovered a math concept that between two numbers, lets say 2 and 3, there are infinite numbers between them (which becomes a headache when solving tricky standardized test problems!). But there are even more infinite…
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Growing Up #7: The Merry-Go-Round of Life
I’ve listened to people talk about their lives as the words innocently sprung out of their mouths and crystallized into lines. A line or two at most, not an elaborate conversation, and yet I know I’ve been hit by circles of perspectives. I’ve listened not through ears, but through my heart. It is as though…
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