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Outgrowing People Without Hating Them
There is this one person I think about sometimes. We were inseparable for years, the kind of close where you stop needing to explain context because they already have all of it. They knew which version of a story I was telling based on who was in the room. They knew when I said I…
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What 2025 Left Me With
I began 2025 in survival mode. I just wanted to get through the year without messing things up. Without disappointing myself. Without making choices I would later wish I could undo. I moved carefully, overthought most decisions, and held on to people and situations tighter than I probably should have. At the start of the…
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3000 followers and a story that was never supposed to make it this far
I keep staring at the number like it’s going to disappear. Like I’ll blink and it’ll go back to 2,999 and I’ll have celebrated for nothing. But it’s real. 3000 people have found their way to this little corner of the internet, and honestly, the fact that it exists at all still surprises me. Let…
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I Poured My Heart Into That Post. And Crickets.
Let me tell you what a Sunday afternoon looks like for me. I have been rearranging the flatlay for forty minutes. The decorative pieces aren’t sitting right, the bookmark keeps slipping out of frame, and the light was perfect twenty minutes ago but now it has shifted and I have missed it. I start over.…
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If We Were Happy All The Time, We Wouldn’t Understand Happiness
There is a specific kind of webinar attendee and I am embarrassed to tell you that I am exactly that kind. The kind who signs up with the best intentions, joins five minutes late, spends the first ten convincing themselves that having the window open is basically the same as listening, and then spends the…
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Loving A Creative Dream Even When It’s Hard
There is a specific kind of dream that doesn’t always look big from the outside, but it takes up a lot of space inside you. The kind that keeps returning to you no matter how busy life gets. The kind that sits somewhere in the background of your mind while you’re doing ordinary things. Sometimes…
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I Tried My Best Today
Today has carried a weight that I woke up with before my eyes were even open. It sat on my chest the way certain dates do even when you pretend they do not matter anymore. There are days when the world feels loud and sharp and full of movement. Then there are days like this…
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One Year of #SoulfulSundaysWithDevika
(a note to anyone who’s ever tried to keep a promise to themselves) I started #SoulfulSundaysWithDevika on a random Sunday, yes but I had a feeling it would stay. I didn’t know what it would look like,or what I would talk about every week,but I knew one thing: I needed something that would make me…
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Live While You Still Can
I came across a post recently that said, “You’re going to be 24 for 365 days. And you could die at 25.” It hit me in a way few things do. We live as if time is infinite, like the people we love will always be there, like our youth will last forever. But the…
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Confessions of a Serial Book Abandoner
There was a time I used to force myself through every single book I started.No matter how slow, how confusing, how painfully dull it felt, I kept going. It didn’t matter if it took me weeks, if I kept sighing through chapters, or if I was internally begging for the plot to pick up. I…
