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five years being away from home and yet, saying goodbye to my parents after every trip home never gets easier. annual trips back home pre covid were a given which I took for granted. each trip, I would either go out with friends, spend time with my then boyfriend whom I already saw every day or jus

Recently, I was indulging in my version of self-care, watching Matt D'Avella's videos when I stumbled across this one - Is Self care turning you into a narcissist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICdS3mLcaNI&ab_channel=MattD'Avella. As with most videos, I've just put it on with no intention of appl

i like to think that generally im an optimistic, glass-half-full kinda person (even though im also an anxious over-thinker at times, but lets ignore that for now). unfortunately, this also means that on occasion, i have to deal with an unfortunate side-effect of this mentality, which is feeling ba

i've been having a very slowly blossoming realisation over the last few weeks about the joy of cooking and its made me think a lot about how bad we've become at experiencing delayed gratification. for context, I've been spending the last few weeks of the holidays with my boyfriend, who also happens

You know those friends that you meet and think I can see you being in my life forever and then after a few years you lose contact. Well, that’s what happened to me after I graduated from university. I met A and H in my first week of university and we hit it off right away we all studied the same sub

when he was more concerned about how he had to pay for half the abortion than my actual wellbeing