Adults are just big kids Friendships are limited, but still worthwhile Affirmation makes all the difference People pleasing is unproductive Nobody's coming to save me Early retirement is achievable Everyone has issues I am risk-averse I'm addicted to social media... like every other Gen Z I gossip Vulnerability that is curated and reviewed... isn't true vulnerability I have a good life I miss being the reliable older sister I'm more similar to my mum than I'd like to admit It

While I was chasing the golden rush of the Japanese sun on a school trip, cradled by a grace I mistook for divine, you lay where mercy didn't reach — in your bitter, muted room. Your stillness was too complete for sleep, too absolute for the world to intervene. Just close your eyes The sun is going down Mrs D told me there was nothing I could've done to keep you here — a comforting sentiment at the time, but a cold and cruel one in retrospect. How dare she assume and so easil

Besides the quirky and youthful musicality of the song, I was somewhat haunted by the echoes of ... "Đã lấy chồng chưa?" (Got a Husband...

Straddling time and truth, the narrator moves through a Vietnam both familiar and foreign, feeling both connected to and betrayed by it....