Category: Blog
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Redemption Arc
As a child, I could effortlessly lose myself in the breadth of my imagination moments before I dozed off to sleep. Glow-in-the-dark stars littered the ceiling of my childhood bedroom, reflecting faint patches of light in a darkness that hugged me to a deep slumber. Each evening, I’d glance up at those stars with a…
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A Living Paradox
A glance in the mirror is all it takes to tell the story of a wistful generational dream. A dream clung on by the innate human desire for better, for more. But a dream so paradoxical in nature that it spins like a top in hypnotizing circles through an endless labyrinth. It was in the…
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The Intrusive Thought
A semester into being a senior in college has warranted a lot of unprecedented behaviors. One of them was being a little too reminiscent of the freshmen’s boundless enthusiasm as if that hadn’t been me a few years ago, while also calling my little brother every weekend to live vicariously through his adventures. Nonetheless, it…
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The Torrential Downpour of Regret
How to be a Game Changer in Accepting Regrets and Moving On My family and I have always gone back to southern India every few years to visit our extended family in the summer months. The first months of the summer bear an intense heat that leaves a slick cast over our foreheads. That is…
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In with Old, Out with the New
A Game Changer in Revitalizing our Old Selves For my 21st birthday this year, my friends pitched in to buy me a born-again film camera- it captures pictures digitally but appears with the aesthetic of developed film. My dad, the photography buff he is, didn’t quite understand the sudden interest in a camera that seemed…
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The Sentiment of Tomorrow
A Game Changer in Growing Up I came across a video that appeared on my Snapchat memories from around a year ago. It was a video I suggested we make for my friends and my future selves, as we hiked to our dorm across campus. We asked all the enthralling questions we had at the…
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A Second Identity Crisis
A Game Changer in Accepting my Identity One of my earliest childhood memories is dancing with my parents to the age-old Bollywood classics in my living room. The Kal Ho Na Ho soundtrack made its way to every corner of my childhood home, entangling with spoken words of my mother tongue. Listening to that music…
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Taking Back Control
A Game Changer in redefining the future. I returned to campus a few weeks ago with all the mental commotion I’d stirred up in my head about what the new semester would be like. Sometimes, however, I forget that even after some of the darkest times, the sun always comes up the next day; the…
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A Search for a New Normal
A Game Changer for New Perspectives Before the start of the new year in each of my journals, I always reflect in hopes of understanding how I’ve grown through the year. This year, I’ve found it extremely difficult to sit down and even begin to think about the past twelve months. So much so, that…
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The First Celebration of Life
A Game Changer in experiencing grief. As a freshman in college, I’ve already experienced so many “firsts.” I’ve moved to Saint Louis by myself, I’ve made a completely new group of friends, and I’ve kind of learned to adult all for the first time. Along with this, however, just a few weeks ago, I also…
Personal Reflections 