You can retell the wisest, most precious advices you’ve heard over the years, as you try to comfort the doubts speaking so loud inside my head at almost every instance. You can spend hours explaining what should or shouldn’t be done so I can move forward, and back it up with some of the most […]

The things we love, aren’t always full of rainbows and butterflies. Yet we still love them. Not despite the heaviness they might hold – but oftentimes *because* of it. Because nothing worth keeping is ever really effortless, and nothing easy truly allows for the emergence of so many levels of contentment. The things we love […]

I know you were meant to be a lesson every time I mention you in a conversation and realize you’re coming up in different contexts, triggering new emotions within. So there’s pain. I know there’s always pain. But sometimes when I speak about you, I can tell there’s an unprecedented level of maturity, too. I’ve […]

The words you don’t get the chance to say, they don’t just fade away. Every word you’ve heard the voice in your head repeat but never got to witness it reach your tongue, it doesn’t just get lost or disappear. It never leaves your body, and possibly not even your mind. It gets stuck. Stuck […]

Validation feels so different when it comes from a place of relatability. When you no longer even need to explain how you feel because you know they’ve been exactly where you are, and they just get it. They don’t need to exert much effort to understand, or to show that they understand. They don’t need […]

Conversations that you walk away from feeling like you’ve spilled out your entire life story, yet you know in you heart that if you were to go back to fix it, you wouldn’t change a thing. Conversations that you no longer try to replay in your head once they’re over, because even when you’ve shared […]

One of the oh so many heart-wrenching scenes on Anne with an E that brought tears to my eyes. A relationship where one person feels responsible for a failure and sees it in the other person’s eye everyday, even though that’s not what she thinks of him. For if she were in his shoes, she […]

I see you everywhere, all the time. I see you in between every bubble formulating on top of my morning coffee, as I sit there remembering the deepest thoughts we’ve discussed over that same cup. I see you in every song that randomly chooses to play in the background, with every lyric taking me back […]

Oh, how I wish I would stop checking my phone every two minutes, waiting for a reply I know is never coming. How I wish my mind would stop making me imagine having heard a notification, when I know my phone’s already on silent. It’s been 15 hours and 45 minutes since the WhatsApp ticks […]

I come across old pictures of me, and I look at the dates. All I can think of is, this was the phase right before you walked into my life. This was before I knew of your existence. And this was before I started checking my phone every few minutes, impatiently waiting for a response […]