Parcul Bujoreni — Where Midnight Chatters dwell Lined up in forest green benches Gauging eyes following as you pass Sweet cigarette smell and honey The Lovers kissed freely that day Tomorrow She sits alone again With a book in Her hand Her feet up, sitting Indian Every day the faces…

But we can still live a life we can be proud of — This may be a hard pill to swallow. We’ve been fed with many stories of success, heroism, and breakthroughs accomplished by protagonists who found their true purpose and have it all ‘figured out’. We look up to these people and imitate their lifestyle, follow their morning routine, and even look…

Why we need financial therapy — My parents shaped my relationship with money. When I was a kid, my mom made a piggy bank out of an old plastic bottle. She would drop extra coins and bills when she can and hide the piggy bank in our dresser. “Don’t tell your father,” she would tell me…

It’s more entertaining than staring at my screen all-day — It’s laundry day again. Probably the highlight of my week because I can’t go anywhere. I load a week’s worth of stinky clothes and of course, the struggle starts. Should I set it to 30 or 40 degrees? How many rotations per minute? Are these all cotton? It’s a new…

Lessons from someone who used to bottle up — Revealing our deepest emotions can be one of the scariest things to do. It’s difficult to be vulnerable in a society where expressing our feelings is seen as a weakness, an overreaction, or worse, something self-inflicted. We are expected to get a hold of ourselves and simply get over the…

A story on being the other woman — It was my last year in college and I honestly didn’t know what life would be like after getting that supposed ticket to the real world. I spent a lot of my time hanging out with guys from my university. On Fridays, we would grab a couple of beers and…

An Outlook on Personality Types And How We Should Use It In Our Lives — I came across the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) right after high school. I took Psychology as my major at a local college and around this time, I was consumed by the concept of understanding your personality and discovering your true self. From Carl Jung’s Archetypes to the Enneagram Types, humanity…

The surprising benefits of being aware while you dream — On most nights, I have vivid dreams. I remember dreaming about fire-breathing dragons in my former high school grounds. The following night, I flew a Nimbus 2000. I played for Gryffindor even though I was sorted for Ravenclaw. The characters and the setting felt too real. Sometimes, the scene shifted…

How to appreciate yourself a little bit more — I’ve been told a lot of times that I’m being too hard on myself. It probably started 19 years ago. Kindergarten. Big Crayola. Nickelodeon lunch box. Annoying boys who open restroom doors for fun. I got my first report card. I was top of the class. Not everybody liked me…