Bucket list
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Handing Over the Baton to My 29th Self
For a long time, I lived under the weight of a sentence that said I wouldn’t make it past my nineteenth birthday. Yet here I am. Two weeks ago on March 18th I crossed into twenty nine. This milestone feels less like a simple birthday to any one around me. For me and my family it’s more like a victory lap I was never supposed to run. The “Baton” is finally being passed from the girl who just wanted to survive to the woman who is ready to sprint. The Quicksand of Ambition This past year was a brutal teacher.…
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Life without computer looks like this…
Your life without a computer: what does it look like? After ages… Finally I am experiencing travel without thoughts occupied by work… ie travelling without my laptop. This is my first international trip… Most importantly, I realised this is how life would feel like without laptop in picture. Guess where…
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Sink or Swim: Learning Swimming as an Adult
Picture this: A land-dwelling creature (Me) with lungs that occasionally protest. And then there’s water, the mysterious, liquid abyss that I have never understood, always seeming like it’s waiting to swallow me. Back in 2019, I decided to create a bucket list. List of – things that I wanted to do, things that I thought will give me a reason to look forward to the future, things that drifted me from the thoughts of existential crisis. My list had everything from “Seeing Fireflies” to “Travelling to Barcelona”. But nestled among those wishes was the granddaddy of them all: swimming. Yep,…
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