Selfishness is not the same as self love. While it is great to be able to embrace yourself for being the wonderful human that you are, there’s a very fine line between putting yourself first when you deserve it, and being downright nasty to others under the guise of loving yourself. Manipulating situations and people […]
x Read more xKindness, whether a consequence of an ulterior motive or otherwise, still makes the world a better place. Hating on the friend who volunteers at charity homes just to get some appreciation on social media is pointless, because there are some people who truly benefit from it. The same rule applies to the neighbour who gives away […]
x Read more xI read an article the other day, about how sex work qualifies as real work, and no one in the world has the right to shame prostitutes and gigolos for what they choose to do for a living. While I feel extremely strongly about the LGBTQ community and the rights of the sex workers, and […]
x Read more xThe pressure media and society at large puts on being attractive is immense to begin with, but at least with women, these issues are now coming to light. Voicing their feelings and the discrimination they go through, they’ve found support universally, or at least some comfort in knowing that they’re not alone. But fat shaming, […]
x Read more xMy eyes were closed in a dreamless sleep when the suicide bomber at the stadium in Baghdad claimed the lives of twenty nine maimed dozens more tore apart two score families give or take a few and they’ll all go unnamed I’m a Hindu by birth we have three hundred and thirty million gods who […]
x Read more xHi there, Did you have a long day? Take a moment off. Think of what made you smile today, and let gratitude touch your heart before it melts away somewhere in the stream of errant thoughts of mounting work and deadlines. Pay attention to yourself. Sit down. It’s okay if you’re in the middle of […]
x Read more xThe Paradox Of The Creative: Depressed And Hunting High Hopes
x Read more xThe definition of femininity has constantly been in a state of flux, but by general consensus, the world has more or less reached a silent agreement to take a stand against objectification and unrealistic beauty standards. While most people make a conscious effort not to partake in discrimination, it’s the subtle patriarchal undertone that is […]
x Read more xIf you’re an artist, you probably remember watching a stranger out of the corner of your eye, dreaming up a story about them…the colour their soul would be on canvas, the angle of their jaw line in sharp focus against your camera lens, the words that would trip out from the tip of your pen […]
x Read more xI remember how at twelve, we’d pass notes in class, in minute handwriting so as to cram as much gossip as we could into a five by five square inch of paper torn out from old notebooks. My best friend and I had a ritual. We’d make little paper boats and leave messages for each […]
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Painting by Catrin Walz Stein
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