Not Every Ask Deserves Your Energy

The other intrusive thought this week came after my encounter with a cat feeder in my area. She was upset because one of the community cats she feeds looked sick and weak. She told me and another rep from a welfare group that she felt depressed because of this. She then insisted we need to help the cat and conveniently shifted the responsibility to us. She said she did not know how to bring the cat to a clinic. She […]

Why school reunion is overrated

This week I’ve been trying to unpack my intrusive thoughts about the upcoming reunion. To be honest, I feel more chore than joy. My high school years never felt like a space where I belonged. The clearest example was the religion teacher who doubled as the student organization’s counselor. He openly said the organization would only accept students from religion ABC. Other religions were out. I was shortlisted as a representative for my class, but in the end I wasn’t […]

Feeling stuck

I’m not sure if people around my age are experiencing this, but here I am. The feeling that I’m stuck or don’t feel motivated to do anything is kinda lingering a little bit longer this time. I had few moments of “spikes” where I feel a little more motivated or gaining my “let’s do it” spirit, but often times it went flat again. Don’t laugh at me, but lately i’ve been using my situation for learning how to use ChatGPT […]

Finding Meaning in Everyday Encounters: A Personal Story

Without realising, year changed and I’m still struggling to be back to blog regularly despite I have many thoughts from time to time. I’ll be back to that topic in a bit. The reason I feel want to go back to write because yesterday I had interesting convo with one of my neighbors. A while ago, I bumped to an uncle who stood by a tree and looked up searching for something when I was on the way to buy […]