LU Chronicles
Last week, I accompanied my youngest cousin to meet a career counsellor. The conversation unfolded much as I expected it would: subjects, entrance examinations, employability, prospects, leading with the familiar vocabulary of a world preoccupied with outcomes. She was thoughtful and impeccably professional, and I assumed the meeting would remain […]
When the fear of not being good enough keeps us from beginning all. The cursor blinks on a document. You have an assignment next week. You know what needs to be done. You even have an idea of how to start. Thirty minutes later you’ve cleaned up your desktop replied […]
I often find myself revisiting old conversations, replaying vanished summers, searching for familiar songs, and craving familiar tastes. It makes me wonder whether human beings live more in memory than in the present, forever trying to return somewhere. We spend much of our lives looking back. We replay moments long […]