Learn to love it even when it sucks — My hands danced happily around the sleek keyboard in a fashionable, coordinated style. It was intuitive and brought my senses to life. The ideas were simply pouring in freshly, not because of epiphanies, but simply direction flow. The direction I always sought — the one that finally freed me from…

It doesn't have to make sense to others — My phone buzzed to life with a pop-up message that reads, “Oh man! I lost a couple of hundreds again.” It was my friend who lived a couple of states away from me. The pandemic had just hit. We were stuck at home during the lockdown with our minds fixated…

Endurance has a love affair with hope — Carl Sagan once said human beings are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it’s forever. Everything was going fine in my life until it wasn’t anymore. Some years ago, I got my first freelance job ever. Emotions welled inside of me. …

Will the light get brighter? — Whenever I think of “My Perfect Day,” I think of a life devoid of the imperfections and limitations of what makes me human. It is a day when the realities of life merge with the imagination of an alternate reality. To me, it’s a day of joy, bliss, and vitality. …

To remain enigmatic, to send mixed signals — “Don’t be a coward; hit back.” I remembered, quite frankly, how the weight of those words questioned my existence. It wrestled with my validity, a challenge that brought its fair share of doubts. Everything had happened fast. …

An atheist challenged my beliefs — Atheists are some of the hardest people to convince of a creator. I remembered my first conversation with an atheist. He is a respected professor in his field. He’d challenged my beliefs of a creator. He started his conversation with many of the things he’s accomplished in his life, bragging…

Plenty of good things to say. . . . But you have to die first — You can’t be the best. You can’t be perfect. Perfection is relative. Some care; others simply don’t. The world, however, has plenty of good things to say about you. But you have to die first. As humans, however, the innate desire to outshine at something is ingrained in us. Painfully…

2. Unify Your Heart — Therein lies the hurdle. . . Therein lies the complexity of horror — the conflicts of past and future emotions, anxieties and pains, urging and pulling you into an ever-present weight of the burden. We live in critical times that are hard to be dealt with. Our moods are dictated…

An engraved choice isn't set in stone; you mark it — Many beautiful, happy memories evoked from childhood. Life was simple, fast, and innocent. I’d remember how my innocence distorted my view of honesty. There is a practice common with parents in this part of the world. As kids, we’d always loved to follow the trail of our mothers. …