Some friendships arrive loudly, like fireworks demanding attention from the whole sky. Others arrive quietly, almost suspiciously soft, slipping into your life through ordinary days until one… Read more “Untitled balcony”
Random thoughts on optimism
Earlier today, I listened to a podcast, one of those conversations that lingers longer than you expect. In it, Yara Shahidi spoke about optimism and pessimism in… Read more “Random thoughts on optimism”
The Cost of Loving a Machine That Refuses to Forgive
There are relationships that begin with promise and end in quiet humiliation. Mine did not even have the decency to end. It lingers like a stubborn cough,… Read more “The Cost of Loving a Machine That Refuses to Forgive”
Of Dogs, Cats, and the Quiet Mathematics of Love
I should begin with a confession: the thought did not come to me in any grand, philosophical way. It arrived the way most inconvenient truths do disguised… Read more “Of Dogs, Cats, and the Quiet Mathematics of Love”
The Day he Fled a Broken TV—And Took Reality With Him
It began, as these things often do, with a quiet certainty that life had slipped—gently but unmistakably—into the realm of the absurd. I had always imagined that… Read more “The Day he Fled a Broken TV—And Took Reality With Him”
A Day That Refused to Be Meaningless
I am compelled—though not entirely certain why—to record the events of today, as if by writing them I might uncover what, precisely, made it feel… significant. For… Read more “A Day That Refused to Be Meaningless”
Of self psychoanalysis
He did not notice when it began, only that it always began the same way—with ease. With laughter that did not ask for effort, with conversations that… Read more “Of self psychoanalysis”
The Gate, the Boy, and the Gaslighting
It began, as these things often do, not with the event itself, but with a disturbance—small, almost laughable in its origin, yet curiously persistent, like a dull… Read more “The Gate, the Boy, and the Gaslighting”
A Coward’s Realization
On courage, the absurdity of overthinking love. There comes a moment in a man’s life when, after years of mistaking movement for courage and philosophy for wisdom,… Read more “A Coward’s Realization”
The art of appearing unbothered
They bestowed upon me an award last year — Best Don’t Worry, Be Happy. Imagine that: a small, glittering token of tranquility, handed to a man who… Read more “The art of appearing unbothered”