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Who you are VS What you can be

Today I come to speak about the curse of knowing yourself too much. The paralyzing reluctance to mistake anxiety for intuition and intuition for anxiety. The fear of responding to perceived threats because you can’t quite place the motivation behind…

How to open up to receive love

open to receiving love

Some time back someone sent me an ex’s picture for laughs. A few days later, I caught myself consumed by the sentiments surrounding our break-up. And I know this was not about that ex specifically because I also caught myself…

What you mean is difference

All couples fight. All friends fight. Family fights. Fighting is okay. Or so we say. I have two best friends, and I have never fought with either. I used to think about what this unspoken understanding we have for each…

The space between us: Malcolm and Marie

The space between us: Malcom and Marie

I finally watched Malcolm and Marie. So, what’s the point of a film about a couple verbally abusing each other? Plenty. It’s in the details. First, you won’t get a climax here. Shot in black and white, this film is…

A short relationship: Where does it fail?

Who said we can’t pretend for over 3 months? Considering the rise of short lived relationship they might have been onto something. Talking from personal lived experience, it does not take me three months to stop pretending (I don’t pretend).…

7 signs of a bad friendship

When a close-proximity relationship like a friendship ends, most of us are quick to note the part our friends played in the demise while being oblivious to our own faults.  I know for a fact I don’t like the idea…