In December 2019—or as we now refer to it, the Before Time — the online magazine Man Repeller predicted that 2020 would be “the year of being not extremely online, not extremely offline, but rather medium online.”
An oversaturated 2019 left many of us reflecting on how we could have…
Do you ever think back to your pre-pandemic life and wonder, why did I keep it together?
What I mean is, why did we strive so hard to cover up or hide our struggles, pain, burnout, and trauma?
If anything, the pandemic gave us the shared global language and permission…
If you’ve ever gazed into a screen, opened social media, and started scrolling — aka all of us — you would have been confronted with a hellscape of news and opinion.
We’re all angry. We should be. The news cycle is never-ending, and the internet democratised information so our eyes…
Remember ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’?
It’s been eighteen months. I’m in lockdown, again, and dare I say it — I miss March 2020.
Terry Nguyen is one of my favourite writers, and her newsletter GEN YEET is a delicious insight into cultural trends relevant to young people. Her…
I’ve forgiven plenty of people, but not everyone deserves that energy.
My baseline is that respect must be earned. Much like forgiveness. I’ve forgiven those close to me for genuine wrongdoings, but only because they apologised and changed their behaviour. These are people I love, who changed, who either made…
In the past year I’ve had several interactions that evoked in me the type of spite that makes you think: “ha, I’ll prove you wrong.”
As I felt this emotion arise, I clutched at it with a matched sense of excitement. …
“Does your mother know where you are?” my aunt queried.
I was barely awake, settling into jet lag and a mandatory two-week isolation in my home country of New Zealand in March 2020, after a frantic 24-hour dash back from London where I lived for the previous year. …
During a past therapy session, my therapist surprisingly noted a breakthrough. I had no clue what she was referring to as I felt a swirling mix of complicated emotions. Yet one of those emotions was anger.
As my therapist explained to me, my progression from sadness to anger was quite…
The hard truth is that even in a post-pandemic future, we will need to grieve what we’ve experienced in order to move forward.
Grief over lost plans, lost friendships, lost…
We are about to round the corner on the one year anniversary of when lockdowns started worldwide, aka the week our old lives ended.
Fittingly for many, the day shit-finally-hit-the-fan and the pandemic became real was Friday the 13th, in March 2020. It was for me. My Timehop is almost…
