📖 Life Experiences

Career

The Burnout That Saved Me

"I was working 80 hours a week, chasing a promotion I didn't even want. Then my body just shut down. In that hospital bed, I realized that my value wasn't tied to my productivity. I quit the next day..."

🤍 89 • 5 min read

Family

Being the Bridge: A Story of a Middle Child

"I spent my life as the peacemaker, the one who navigated the storms between my parents and siblings. I thought my role was to be the glue, but I realized I was just holding everyone else together while falling apart myself..."

🤍 215 • 4 min read

Love & Heartbreak

Learning to Love Myself After 10 Years

"We were together for a decade. When it ended, I didn't just lose him; I lost the person I was with him. I had to learn how to grocery shop alone, how to sleep in the middle of the bed..."

🤍 342 • 6 min read

Success

First Generation Graduate in My Family

"When I walked across that stage, I wasn't just walking for myself. I was walking for my father who worked in the fields and my mother who never saw a classroom..."

🤍 567 • Vikram D.

Loss & Healing

The Year After My Mother Left

"The house still smells like her sometimes. I still cook her recipes wrong. But slowly, I'm learning that missing her and living fully aren't opposite things..."

🤍 287 • 5 min read

Career

जब मैंने सरकारी नौकरी छोड़ी

"लोग पागल कह रहे थे। सुरक्षा और स्थिरता छोड़कर मैंने अपने जुनून को चुना। डर बहुत था, लेकिन सुकून उससे कहीं ज्यादा..."

🤍 431 • 4 min read