Tag: opinion
They were always going to leave. that was the point.
Letting go of your children is not a single moment. It is a thousand quiet losses that begin long before they leave, and long before you are ready. There is a specific kind of grief that has no funeral. No date to mark. No ritual to contain it. Nobody brings you flowers. Nobody asks how…
From trusting everyone to trusting no one but yourself
What nobody tells you about moving abroad alone is the sea of questions to come. Nobody warns you about the silence. Not the silence of an empty apartment. Not the silence of a city that does not know your name. The silence that sets in when you realise that for the first time in your…
Who are you when everything changes?
The psychology of identity tells us that the self is not fixed. But nobody warns you what it actually feels like when it starts to shift. It is not a breakdown. It is not a crisis in the clinical sense. It is the quiet, persistent unsettledness of a person who no longer quite recognises the…
Pi number: the most fascinating number in the universe
Pi number is the most famous number in existence. It is also the strangest, the most obsessed over, and arguably the most important. You probably know it as 3.14. You probably know it has something to do with circles. What you might not know is that Pi turns up where circles are nowhere in sight,…
Meaning of home: when home stops being a place
Meaning of home changes. Nobody warns you when it happens, or that it will happen more than once. The first time it happens quietly. You go back to where you grew up and something is off. The streets are the same. The smell of the kitchen is the same. But you are sitting at a…
The world as we knew it, as of yesterday, is no more
Khamenei dead. Three words that would have seemed impossible yesterday. Three words that make February 28, 2026 a date that does not unhappen. By the time most people woke up this morning, the United States and Israel had launched a major joint military operation against Iran. Hundreds of strikes. Explosions across Tehran, Qom, Isfahan, Kermanshah.…
The world is getting better. here’s the proof.
Good news stories in 2026 are harder to find than they should be. Not because good things are not happening but because the human brain is wired to pay more attention to threats than progress. Slow, steady improvement does not trigger the same alarm response as crisis. The news cycle has a negativity problem. Not…
The guilt of outgrowing your family
Success guilt does not always feel like success. You are sitting at the dinner table you grew up around. The food is the same. The voices are familiar. Everything is, on the surface, exactly as it has always been. And yet something feels different in a way you cannot explain without it sounding like a…
The anxiety of being replaceable
The fear of being replaced at work rarely announces itself dramatically. You did not see a headline that triggered it. It arrived more quietly than that. A tool at work that handles something you used to handle. A meeting where someone younger spoke with a confidence that reminded you of yourself, but faster and with…
Nobody trusts the future anymore
Economic uncertainty is shaping adult life more quietly than most people realise.It is not that people are panicking. There is no single moment of crisis, no dramatic turning point, no event that explains it cleanly. Just a quiet, persistent reluctance to commit to things that previous generations committed to without much deliberation at all. People…
