the way that everyone keeps saying how "self-care" is key but here i am at my desk literally stuffing down the last bite of a stale bagel after just losing my pregnancy. i had to go back to work the next day because what was i gonna do, ask for time off to heal while my rent is due and my paycheck barely covers my bad coffee addiction? i watch my coworkers laugh in their shiny new sneakers, not kn...
wait. you ever get so caught up in work you send a detailed email meant for your manager to the entire company instead? my 'urgent: restructuring proposal' just ended up with every intern in the company laughing about how the “execs clearly have no idea what they are doing.” two weeks later, i get summoned to HR. at that moment, it hit me—sometimes doing the right thing just ends up making you a p...
not gonna lie, sometimes i lie awake thinking about how my brother's locked in that room with chains instead of getting real help, while my village believes it’s 'chudail' possession instead of schizophrenia, yaar, matlab samjho na, its 2023 and we're treating mental illness like it's some horror film.
not gonna lie, sometimes i lie awake thinking about how my brother's locked in that room with chains instead of getting real help, while my village believes it’s 'chudail' possession instead of schizophrenia, yaar, matlab samjho na, its 2023 and we're treating mental illness like it's some horror film.
wait, i just realized that in a world where “failing fast” is celebrated, i declared bankruptcy at twenty-nine because a driver with no insurance turned my life into a punchline. i mean, who knew that riding the “tech startup wave” while drowning in medical debt from an accident i didn’t cause would leave me borrowing lunch money just to swipe my card at the bodega. sitting there staring at my pho...