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Everyday Stories, Lived

  • Welcome home, I guess?

    After my three-week vacation back from my childhood home, I came back to the metro to a fat white cat, angry (but still cute), attacking and chasing me. Novo wouldn’t back down, not having his untrimmed claws and little teeth buried against my skin. Glad I was wearing enough clothing to cover down my ankle. Read more

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  • We already paid for this

    I was sorting through our hospital discharge papers when another patient’s family member leaned over. “You know you can ask the congressman for help, right? On top of the government assistance you can process there,” while pointing to a well-known healthcare assistance program in the country. That’s when it hit me: we’re all just one Read more

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  • They call it trust. They call it faith. They call it acceptance.

    How can you know you’re being exploited if you belong to a system that keeps you from asking deep questions—a system designed to prevent you from knowing you are in one? When naive trust, blind faith, and uncritical acceptance are all that’s expected of you, how do you even begin to see clearly? While catching Read more

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  • The week I became a snot in the nose (and learned to let go)

    When you do things against your will, more likely working on things you never want to be part of, you end up grumbling and muttering under your breath, your mouth conjuring every complaint it can find. And the more you resist, the heavier the weight of the task becomes, even when it’s as easy as Read more

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  • When the waiting felt like a punishment

    When I was preparing for an academic admission application, there were many things I needed to prepare and provide. While some only required hours to fulfill, others needed days. And if I hadn’t anticipated surprises, I might have missed the deadline altogether because some items took about four months to finish, specifically the ones that Read more

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  • Letter no. 50

    Dear reader from the future, How do you celebrate birthdays? Is buying stuff for gifts still a thing? Maybe after listening to many episodes of The Minimalists and reading The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, I think about all the stuff I have accumulated over Read more

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  • Late-night musings #30

    We can’t be certain what the future would be for each of us because like in regression analysis, there’s always this there’s always this error term—that unexplained variance, the residual that you can’t quantify beforehand like you do with your variables. It’s built into the model itself, an acknowledgment that not everything fits neatly into Read more

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Everyday Stories, Lived

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