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perspective
It is a funny thing, time and perspective. I have grown to obesses over it over the years, in fact just a little over ten years ago, I started this blog and with such naiveity, I honestly thought this is who I would be, in my little space of the internet, sharing my incessantly pointless…
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Goodbye and Thank You Devi
It is the end of a television era as I binge-watched the final season of Netflix’s Never Have I Ever. My journey with this show began as a rocky one and I told myself this was just another shallow representation of Indian American teens falling for white boys, and while yes that happened too, the…
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A love letter
Deep freezer not for our secrets , not for dead bodies But for our love we stack haphazardly all the food one MIGHT NEED Your neck strains digging through the ice,and you find faint scribbled handwriting on an ice cream container We know, it’s never actually ice cream Who knows why we are constantly stocked…
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English Tea
You engulf my body in your warm embrace and sometimes, I can almost forget the colonisation. Chai Tea (Tea – Tea) you cultural appropriating narcissists. Haldi has been used for centuries to achieve a glowing body, Inside and out. Stop pretending your invented it for your trendy lattes, diluted skincare and juice shots. Naan Bread…
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So…apparently my prefrontal cortex is fully developed.
To be quite honest, I am not even entirely sure of what the above means biologically speaking and also it might actually be a myth. All I am fully aware of is that I am 25 and well, I am not a fan and loadshedding still exists! Where did the ten years vanish to and…
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the great resignation!
Are you feeling demotivated? undervalued? tired of the daily and pointless commute to work in a world where petrol makes your salary feel inconsequential and still deeply confused about what is going on between Russia and Ukraine right now? well, let me tell you about another silent killer, an epidemic that has been infiltrating the…
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Durban to Dublin
Tomorrow may never come and nothing made that more real to me was the sudden shock of losing loved ones both through accidents and well a pandemic- hard to believe is STILL ongoing even though you know we are maskless, working from home, and getting “just the flu“ A lot in my life has changed…
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the summer I turned pretty – a mature x Taylor Swift collab
Let me just preface this review with the most important statement of all: I did not read the books. Yes, oh the horror, but I went into this only a little blind, I did grow up as a tumblr girlie, but I was a little too obsessed with another girl who could not choose between…
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sunshine
The soft ocean waves crash onto the shoreline and I feel them reach between my toes, but as it recedes it feels like my entire body is being pulled forward by water while remaining cemented in muddy sand. We slather ourselves in sunscreen, head to toe as the warnings of our mother’s not to get…
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