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Year: 2020
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At the tail end of 2019, I got myself a planner and started writing my goals for the year ahead. While doing it, I felt really hopeful and happy but it also kind of made me feel anxious. I was imagining a better world and a more confident self. I wanted to be in a…
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All too often in life we become distracted by the immediate, tangible tasks of everyday. We speed through our moments such that we can’t even tell what day it is. We live for the weekend and yet it passes us by in an instant. And then we dread waking up to another Monday morning just…
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Anxiety is my emotional default mode. I try to plot out uncertain futures with a handful of learning experiences and a few theories under my belt to predict how my choices will lead to certain outcomes. Fear, on the other hand, is the more insidious default brain setting. In hindsight, I can’t count how many…
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Modern life in the city finds no acceptable excuse for making people wait. Take for example, in food service restaurants, the food is being served on the counter even before the order was completed. For those who don’t want to go out of the house, food delivery is the best option, with the food being…
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In the past few days, I’ve been struggling to wrap my head around the fact that a virus has forced the world to a standstill. When the local headlines started swirling around the spread of COVID-19 across the globe, I didn’t understand yet what it meant and how it will affect daily life as we…
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When I reflect on all the things that I fear, these are usually borne out of my survival instinct: I fear deep waters because I might drown. I fear heights because I might fall. I fear crossing roads because I might get run over by a speeding car. Biologically, fear is a mechanism that has…
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‘Alone’ is often such a fearful place to be. It doesn’t matter where you come from, how old you are, or what you do for a living. We all enter into pockets of solitude that stretch from moments to months. And while we live in the age of hyperrealistic connectivity because of social media and…
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A new year is a clean slate, or so we think. For many, the beginning of a new year merits celebration because (yay!) there are no mistakes in it yet. It is a chance to be new again. As the clock strikes twelve and the calendar beams with a proud January 1, we feel ecstatic…
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