Sometimes I get anxious about the passage of time. But maybe anxious is the wrong word. Maybe it’s more a feeling that exists somewhere between melancholy and restlessness. Sometimes it isn’t even about melancholy though, and just something I process more through a lens of acceptance and peace. The older I get, the more people I meet, and so naturally more and more people start to come and go in my life. It’s been a difficult thing to accept actually, that people are meant to

My aunt says people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. She explained it to me as, people come into our lives either to teach us something important, to play an important and specific role in our lives for a certain time, or to stay with us forever. I’ve always liked that because it somehow makes it easier to understand the purpose for the different types of love we feel, at the different times in which we experience them. It lets us understand the reas

2017 was a tumultuous year. For me personally, but for the entire world as well. While my year has been transformative and exciting, it’s also been the most difficult and painful year of my life. It’s been a year of growth, heartbreak, healing, strength, pressure and success, failure, and finally starting to understand exactly who I think I am, even though I still have no clue about what I actually want to do with my life. That used to freak me out, but it doesn’t so much any