Tag: depression
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What Should Girls Like Me Do?
by someone still figuring it out There are days when I wake up and genuinely ask myself: What am I doing with my life? I don’t mean that in the dramatic, throw-a-pillow-at-the-wall way. I mean it in the quiet, bone-deep, unsettling way — The way you feel when your entire lineage seems to shine with…
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The Man I Love
As you walk past the village, following the gravel road, just where the farmlands begin, your gaze is drawn to a quiet, boxy white house with a flat terrace. Its floor-to-ceiling windows open onto endless fields and mountains that turn soft and blue in the evening light. Crimson bougainvillea creepers frame every window, as if…
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Wildflowers of my mind
She walked slowly along the path that disappeared into the horizon, her fingers brushing against the wildflowers swaying gently on either side. The blooms danced in the afternoon breeze, dotting the green hillside with bright reds, yellows, blues, and whites. She followed a narrow trail, carved out by the few who, like her, cherished the…