I was a sensitive child or so I was told. And like most people I equated sensitivity with fragility and I grew up believing that I was weak — not fully equipped to maneuver the harshness of the world successfully and gracefully.
It Looks Like Success, but it Doesn’t Feel like Success The yardstick by which we measure someone else’s success is often shallow, exterior-focused, and almost never takes the person’s inner …
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Our Collective Sin In light of AWiB’s much-awaited season of recognizing and celebrating women of excellence, I decided to write about women who reside in almost every middle- and upper-class …
The Paradox of Love Whenever I think of the people I’d loved and lost, for instance, my uncle who’d recently passed and the ones I will inevitably lose if I …
If You Think You Are Strong Scandals of any kind can make for salacious afternoon gossip if not for an animated Reddit discussion or a good, lucrative documentary or podcast. …
Well, Sometimes the Lemonade is Just not Worth the Lemons From a very young age, my sister and I have been praised for being good, responsible, and diligent girls. And …
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One of my worst fears came to pass this week. After fighting sarcoma for almost two years, my uncle passed this Monday morning. He was 36 years old.
Confidence and Humility Confidence is not a static quality, nor is it devoid of humility. Oftentimes confidence and humility are presented as if they exist on the opposite side of …
The Truth I have been staring at a blank page for over twenty minutes now. I am not feeling inspired to write or do anything for that matter. It’s Friday …
Shame is a powerful and lingering emotion. And for a variety of reasons, some of us are more prone to it than others. One of my earliest childhood memories is related to the shame that took place in my elementary school when my Indian English teacher asked me to stand in front of the class and tell everyone why I was absent the day before.
