Category: Personal Growth

A person sitting alone in a workplace meeting, symbolizing the burden of representation and why diversity in the workplace matters

Sep 14, 2025 3 min read

Why Is Diversity Important in the Workplace?

Being the only one in the room carries a heavy burden — the pressure of representation. This post explores why…

An elderly woman shares wisdom about the acceptance of death with her granddaughter during a conversation in a hospital cafeteria.

Sep 12, 2025 5 min read

Acceptance of Death: The Wisdom of a Life Fully Lived

In a hospital cafeteria, a grandmother discusses her funeral playlist with the casual ease of planning a dinner party. A…

A visual for the myth of the one: a person has a moment of realization about chosen love while folding laundry.

Sep 12, 2025 6 min read

Myth of the One: Finding Beauty in Choosing Love

We carry a blueprint for a lightning bolt love story. This is about the moment you realize real love isn't…

A split image showing a faded kindergarten photo of an eager child next to an adult's hand holding it on a kitchen counter, reflecting on the loss and potential reclamation of creative courage.

Sep 12, 2025 3 min read

Peaking in Kindergarten: Reclaiming Our Lost Creative Courage

We spend decades unlearning the creative confidence we had as children. This is a meditation on the idea that we…

Two adults perform a conversation in a modern mall, their reflections distorted in a dark glass window, symbolizing the disconnect between their public performance and private selves.

Sep 12, 2025 3 min read

The Performance of Self: Our Era’s Collective Solitude

Running into an old friend becomes a performance of a successful life. A stark look at the modern condition of…

A photorealistic still life showing a digital clock displaying 11:11 next to an extinguished, melted birthday candle on a wooden desk, symbolizing the loss of childhood wonder and the transition to adult pragmatism.

Sep 12, 2025 2 min read

The Death of Magical Thinking: A Personal Reflection

At twenty-five, seeing 11:11 on digital clocks no longer triggers wishes. That moment marked magical thinking’s death. Childhood’s innocent hope…

A close-up, photorealistic image of a blank emergency contact form on a hospital clipboard, with a patient's hand and a heart monitor wire visible, symbolizing profound isolation during a medical crisis.

Sep 12, 2025 2 min read

The Blank Emergency Contact: Crisis Isolation in the Modern Age

A heart attack's searing pain forces an ambulance call—but the emergency contact form remains blank. In a moment of crisis,…

A symbolic image of rebirth: a Phoenix butterfly emerges from the ashes of a burnt photograph and flies toward a bright sunrise over a new landscape.

Sep 12, 2025 2 min read

Endings as Beginnings: The Rebirth After Loss

Signing divorce papers felt like life's end. But that ending birthed authentic self-discovery. This essay explores how endings—in relationships, careers,…

A somber future view of meat consumption: a museum exhibit critiquing historical industrial farming.

Sep 12, 2025 2 min read

Future View of Meat Consumption: A Historical Crime?

Future generations will view our industrial meat consumption as a barbaric moral failure, akin to historical atrocities like slavery. This…

A young person sits at a desk in a vast library, looking at a blank book while surrounded by volumes titled 'Social Cues' and 'Career Navigation.' Faint streams of data flow around other people in the background, symbolizing unspoken knowledge.

Sep 12, 2025 2 min read

The Missing Manual of Life | On Feeling Behind

Everyone else seems fluent in existence's unwritten language, while I stumble through conversations with broken syntax. This is a reflection…