To not surviving
I almost didn’t survive the last 3 months. I am hardly doing a good job of surviving now. Life feels like a long thriller movie where the …
Totu
In 2018, I shifted home, desiring the coziness of family as much as to abandon it forever. That formed a big big part of my mental health. …
If ifs and buts were candies and nuts
If I had written this post 2 days ago, which I would not have for I felt the world ending, this post would be dark and disturbing. …
Happy in my heart // Schitt’s Creek
At the risk of being repetitive, I want to say that I am the least anxious I remember being at a stretch. If it’s the medication, the …
Papa
It has been 65 days since papa’s operation. Two months since we came home, tried to gather our lives, created new routines, and then made newer ones …
Mental housekeeping
At the end of my workday at six, I, with my work partner and a bunch of other people, do a check-out calls, from across cities if …
Lists and quotes
I should make monthly lists of things that make me so happy they put a spring in my step, a song on my lips, and give me …
Hugging Diwali
When my papa was a little boy, my Dada was a poor man. He would buy long, long cloth when it was time to buy new clothes …
Figuring it
I pray for a day the high point of which is getting an Amazon delivery or reading a brilliant quote on the internet or convincing Dadi to …
I lived a nightmare yesterday
I lived a nightmare yesterday. Everything that my anxiety made me imagine, came true, over laundry. Laundry. Lesson: any reason is excuse enough when you reach saturation. …