Conversation with my 21-year-old self

Today I turned 26 and got a letter from my 21-year-old self in the email. Dear Future Me,If you are reading this, then you must be 26 years old today. So Happy Birthday, Dude from your 21-year-old self. I am writing this today because Jake Edwards made a video of his letters from his 13 … Continue reading Conversation with my 21-year-old self →

Waiting in Vain?

I've been waitingI've waitedI've waited so longBut I see no sign of the one I'm waiting forI've met a few travelersWe chatted a bitSome moved alongSome offered me a handBut I waited nonethelessI waited for the oneBut I have doubts if that one would ever show up againI wonder if I'm just waiting in vainI … Continue reading Waiting in Vain? →

Words Don’t Turn to Verse No More

The Muse left without warningRhyme disappearedThoughts mellowed and frozeFeelings numbed without drowning in alcoholTears refused to flowHurt doesn't feel the right to feel hurt anymoreFeelings feel ashamed to come forth and take the center stageIt's been too long to keep retelling the same taleIt changes nothingIt doesn't have the power to bring back what used … Continue reading Words Don’t Turn to Verse No More →

Red White & Royal Blue Review

This book had been on my TBR for so long, and I’m glad I finally read it. It’s written by Casey McQuiston who is nonbinary and bisexual (so someone who knows what they are writing about). This is their debut novel written because of a lack of LGBT fiction in mainstream media. The story revolves … Continue reading Red White & Royal Blue Review →

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Book Review)

Almost every culture talks of where we go after death: hell, heaven or even purgatory in the meantime. Here Matt Haig imagines a library between life and death. As long as you have even a little bit of desire for living you remain in the library. In the library is an infinite number of books, … Continue reading The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Book Review) →

The Island of the Sea Women by Lisa See (Book Review)

The Island of Sea Women is a story of two friends who happen to be haenyos or sea women on the remote Korean Island of Jeju. The novel encompasses their life right from the time they meet as young girls, become best friends, travel away from home for work to their respective marriages, married life, … Continue reading The Island of the Sea Women by Lisa See (Book Review) →

Starting T… but then Stopping after 1.5 Months

Yes, I finally began medical transition. Right at the start of March 2021, I had my appointments with a psychiatrist and an endocrinologist. I got my gender dysphoria/incongruence letter, got my blood tests done, and then began that (oh so sweet) testosterone. It seemed like the perfect time to start T. I had a job, … Continue reading Starting T… but then Stopping after 1.5 Months →

Ending a Friendship

I am someone who thinks about friendships a lot. Who do you really call a friend? How do friendships evolve? How do friendships end? Am I a good friend? And being an introvert I have fewer but quality friendships. Recently I ended a friendship, actually with someone I was pretty close to. So let's get … Continue reading Ending a Friendship →

Leaving My Job amid the Pandemic

So I had been doing a freelance job since March 2020. It was something I was really happy about for quite some time. It was a freelance job only in a few respects; basically I was with a company which was outsourcing a regular supply of work to me. So there was regular work, but … Continue reading Leaving My Job amid the Pandemic →

Not My Cup of Tea

Love is not my cup of tea, he saysBut the truth isLove was very much his cup of teaHe drank it dailySipped every drop freeEvery drop was a drop of EcstacyPure, filled with blissNectar of lifeUtterly divineTill one day his heart was brokenOr rather it was the cup that was shatteredWith everything else that matteredThe … Continue reading Not My Cup of Tea →