Paris is Burning Today Paris got burnt It rained hail It rain hell And rained hell fire Today Paris cried She wept Wept bitterly She was overwhelmed Like oh evil witch How could you burn me then invite me to dine with you She wept for herself Wept for her…

Trust me to come up with the most absurd article titles. Today is no less. See, the topic today is to deliberately hide what I am talking about. The accurate and sensible title would be:- “If my life right now was a playlist” But, as we all know, it has been said that if you want to hide…

I wish I were a poet I wish I were a poet because then I could describe somber situations with a level of romanticism I wish I were a poet because then I would, perhaps, I would have a mind that sees beauty in everything, even bleakness But I am…

I wish life were a fantasy. It would then be easy for us to just change everything because fantasies have an easy way of going about things, like from having zero to many close friends. Unfortunately this is real life. And in real life things are different. They take time…

A writer’s Lamentations What are the very worst thoughts you have had about yourself? I do not how much this qualifies as an article, but perhaps it shall be a personal journal of all the horrible things I have thought about myself. Naturally, we remember what happens more recently than…

“Fail forward. Fail better” Who hasn’t heard those words at least once in their lives? And yet many of us keep failing, the same way we failed the last times. …

Ubuntu is … recognizing and healing your traumas I grew up in poverty. That means, that for the most part, I grew up not knowing what success looked like. The one rich person in our village was so rich; none of us had ever seen him. At least I had…

The Tragedy of Comparing Ourselves with Others It feels like I have only ever failed. I have felt that way too many times. I wonder who can relate. I am twenty five years old, and as of today, twenty five years, four months and one day. “And it is taking…

I have been stuck. Stuck for a very long time. Feeling small. Seeing myself as small. Feeling and seeing myself as one without a choice. Feeling as if things happen to me, and not me making them happen. …