troubleshooting arrogance
When I was a teenager, the dominant criticism my closest friends had of me was that I was too arrogant, and they were right. I was too caustic, abrasive, eager to nitpick, quick to criticize, and I was way too certain of myself. I spent my entire 20s trying to correct for this. The social […]
⏩ ages 17 to 29
Dear Visa-17, Visa-29 here. So I recently got on a Singapore Airlines plane (I know, finally!) and flew across the planet to San Francisco, California. It was, in my opinion, the best two weeks of my life. I have so much to say about it that I don’t know where to begin – until I […]
a sitemap of my memoirs
I have always been a somewhat scatter-brained person, and I’ve also always felt this sort of compulsion to catalog everything. The hope, I think, is that indexing everything would somehow make my life better – that I would “learn my lessons” better. Anyway. Over the years, I’ve definitely written a bunch of things that are memoir-ish. I’ll index them […]
🙏🏾 an oral history of my relationship with religion
Thought I’d write about my thoughts about religion, and how my perspective on it has changed from my childhood to the present day. I was raised in a Hindu household. We didn’t eat any beef. We went to the temples on special occasions. My mum had an altar with a pantheon of gods, and she’d […]