Category: Blog

  • On Love and the Stories We Tell Ourselves to Stay Safe

    There’s something alarming about hearing the same words from different people over different seasons of your life. “Dali, you’re too good.” Every person I’ve ever loved has said this to me, and for the longest time, I thought it was just another version of “it’s not you, it’s me”—that white lie meant to soften the…

  • Saying ‘Yes’ to ‘No’

    There’s something subtle and understated that happens when we say yes too often. It’s not loud or dramatic. It’s a quiet fading away of our own needs, our own boundaries, and even our own voice. It doesn’t happen overnight. Instead, it seeps in slowly, coated in gestures of kindness, duty, or responsibility. We say yes…

  • Between Here and There: On Choosing to Move Forward When the Path Dissolves

    There’s a kind of quiet that only comes with uncertainty—a strange, almost comforting fog that rolls in when you’re standing at a crossroad, feeling as though you could step in any direction—or choose to stay right where you are. Maybe I was waiting for something, hoping that if I held still long enough, the right…

  • Learning to Let Go, Again and Again

    I’ve been made redundant about a dozen times. I’ve walked out of offices disheartened and frustrated, with a mind packed with things left unsaid. Each time, I left behind something I’d built—a project I poured my efforts into, a relationship that once mattered, an experience that no longer had a place—and I stepped out a…