We all have a natural inclination to feel, right? We have emotions and responses to things at certain times. Sometimes you feel the greatest happiness due to an event or a person or something in your life that makes you feel inexplicable joy, like it will always be 75 and…

There’s an apartment complex by my house that isn’t the most affluent of apartment complexes, nor is it the most low-tier and cheap of apartment complexes. It’s a simple place with a few gray-brick buildings and windows wide enough to light up the interior of a room. The most outstanding…

Tell me, when was the last time you did anything perfectly? Was it today? Yesterday? Last week, last year, last decade? When was there a time in your life you ever thought, “Wow, I nailed this so well, I have finished my assignment forever. I’ve ran the race and won…

I can’t think of a time when I didn’t question something. I always made it a point to raise my hand when I was in primary school to ask questions, even if they sounded dumb. In an interview, I make sure to ask a question, trying to make sure the…

Ever since I was little I’ve had to split my heart in two. Two places, two families, two worlds that I worked hard to ensure would never collide and create the catastrophic WWIII that everyone whispers about. While I deemed this mental and physical differentiation necessary at the time, it…

It dawned on me that I didn’t know who I was for a long time. I identified with the things around me — people, accomplishments, failures, things that were and things that still remain out of my control. I’d fallen for lies, for deception. …

There was an instance once in which I had a best friend, someone who I thought would always be there for me, and I for her. I thought she was going to be one of those friends I would call up when I was 40 and in the middle of…

Doubt is like the dripping water of an outside faucet that corrodes its metal origins from newly silver to a greenish crumble, leaving behind a deep and destructed chasm in a ground formed from solid rock once thought to be impenetrable. …