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Everyday Stories, Lived

Life

  • Going home from home

    I’ve known a man who said he doesn’t believe in owning a house. That he’s okay with renting a place for years and years, but he can leave whenever he wants — no commitment. But now that it was time to leave, to move on to a new place after years and years of building… Read more


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  • Watching comedy from the recommendations list

    It’s fun because the algorithm seems to know your taste. Sure, it learns as you go. But at the same time, as it gets better, the more you’re sucked into a never-ending recommendations list. And dopamine hits are so attractive that you just want to laugh and laugh after one comical skit, then another, letting… Read more


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  • Circles

    There are values we uphold. Hence, when others don’t keep the same behavioral standards we do, we shy away from them. We don’t hate them; no, we don’t. We simply make ourselves scarce around them because they are not the kind of people we linger around with. On occasions when we should be mingling with… Read more


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  • Mood

    Mood changes. There are days when we get a bad day, don’t we? And there are reasons. Reasons that we can’t articulate at the moment. So don’t hate people just because their mood changes. Read more


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  • Early risers

    When you know why you have to wake up early and where you are going, it’s easier to convince yourself to get out of bed and be in motion. And once you are set in motion, you find it easier to continue moving. Because when you get up early in the morning, you experience the… Read more


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  • Home

    A home is sometimes a place, sometimes a person. That’s why it gets hard to say goodbye to people you call home. Read more


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  • Timelines

    I was sure that with careful planning and preparing for contingencies, my life would unfold the way I wanted them to. But here I am, almost three decades in, feeling everything I wanted to happen for this timeline seemed out of my control. Yes. It seems to me that I am missing some of the… Read more


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