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  • How Being Laughed At in Class Taught Me About Wisdom

    An awkward class moment led to a life lesson about wisdom, reflection, and the importance of staying grounded—even when others laugh.

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  • The Year the Coffee Went Cold

    There was once a girl who kept a chair open at her table.A seat that stayed untouched, season after season,through evenings and early morning sunrises. She didn’t call it waiting—not out loud.For almost a year, she kept a candle burning in the window.silently wishing that whatever it was she was clinging to—A voice, an emotion,

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  • Life is Suffering

    Life is Suffering

    I once received a meme from someone that read,“Life is suffering.” Initially, I chuckled. “Does it have to be?” was my first thought.It had a gloomy, somewhat dramatic, sound. Like something you’d say when things aren’t going your way. Months later, nonetheless, I heard a podcast—Dr. Anna Lembke on The Diary of a CEO. She

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  • The Cage That Feels Like Home

    There’s something about the way in which we go back to the people who have caused us pain. We assure ourselves it’s because of love, because of history, because of how they used to make us feel. We reassure ourselves that the sight of them reminds us we can still feel things so deeply. What

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  • More Than Just Love: Choosing What Truly Matters

    I was told, two weeks ago, by someone important to me that I need to find the man I truly value. I nodded at first, allowing the words to sink in. For years, I had no idea what values even were. I would just take whatever was put in front of me—other people’s values, other

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  • I Didn’t Wait—But Somehow, the Flame Rekindled Itself

    I wasn’t waiting. I want to make that clear. I did not spend the past decade waiting, hoping for some big reunion, keeping a place in my heart open for someone who had already departed. I moved on. I lived. I grew. I loved and I lost. I built myself into someone stronger, someone wiser,

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