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A Love Letter to the Boring Days
We spend so much time waiting for the next ‘big’ thing that we forget that most of life is made up of ordinary Tuesdays. As someone who is physically incapable of sitting still, I constantly look forward to the exciting, busy days. But in doing so, sometimes I forget to appreciate the charm of the…
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A Guide on Loving People Through Music
Rule #1: Never Share Your Favourite Song Too Soon A beginner mistake. To all the sappy, saccharine people out there – the worst possible blunder you could make is offer your favourite song to someone you don’t trust fully. It’s like handing a fragile vase to a toddler and expecting it to remain intact. A…
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What Your Favourite Font Says About You
Arial You terrify me. Arial people have either fully transcended human insecurity or have absolutely no inner monologue whatsoever. You open a document and immediately start working. No font changes. You probably close all your tabs once you use them, you psychopath. You’re productive enough to: There is something so dystopian about how you simply……
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Today, I Learned Love Can Exhaust You
Heartbreak is an innate aspect of teenage life. And yet, it doesn’t feel any less devastating when it happens. When you trust someone – wholly put your faith and belief into them, let yourself be vulnerable, reveal the deepest parts of you – you are baring yourself, peeling off armor piece by piece. And when…
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Dressed in Souvenirs✧
Jewelry is my armor.Whenever I have a challenging day ahead of me, I like putting on trinkets from around the world. An evil eye bracelet slips around my wrist, cool against my skin. An airport in Istanbul at midnight. The sound of scraping suitcases and shoes along terrazzo, and the sweet smell of baklava and…
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Book Review: The Bluest Eye
“Quiet as it’s kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941. We thought, at the time, that it was because Pecola was having her father’s baby that the marigolds did not grow. A little examination and much less melancholy would have proved to us that our seeds were not the only ones that didn’t sprout; nobody’s did…It…
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A Specific Kind of Comfort
Morning fog. A lingering walk, hem trailing through dew-moistened grass. Soft piano notes echoing in the background, marking the indelible theme – Dawn by Dario Marianelli and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. The beginning of Pride & Prejudice unravels slowly. This is a movie that I could tirelessly watch a hundred times over – from the tactlessness of…
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Is Language Deteriorating?
The Use of Slang Everyone hates slang until it becomes what we call “ordinary” language. If you think it’s a modern problem, you’d be wrong: ‘slang’ has existed for as long as spoken language has drawn breath. The word “jazz”, for instance. When it first appeared around 1912, it wasn’t the name of a music…
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A Brief Footnote on Immortality
I lied.I don’t just want to live a happy life; I won’t be content. I want to leave an indelible mark on this world; to be the name everyone reveres and fears in the same breath. The idea of “averageness” frightens me beyond all rational thought. The concept of every trace of my existence being…
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A Misshapen Lump of Clay
Tried sculpting with air dry clay yesterday, and quickly realised that keeping the lump of clay intact was far more difficult than the rest of the process. It seems that crumbling clay is a fitting metaphor for life, where every solution seems to undo the last.
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“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
– Leo Tolstoy
