Calyco meets Cowardice
Calyco learned this slowly but clearCowardice does not arrive as fear.It looks like fire, truth tied to a stake,Set alight […]
I Thought Motherhood Set Me Back. I Was Wrong
I thought I had fallen behind.
Not in a dramatic, life-is-over kind of way but quietly. Life looked full from the outside but I realised the world had moved on and I was stationery.
My days were packed. Completely consumed. Feeding, cleaning, planning, worrying. Watching The Wiggles long after the kids had gone to sleep. Learning recipes I never cared about before. Living a life that was busy to the brim and yet, somehow, I felt strangely invisible.
While I was doing all of this, the world outside didn’t pause. It sped up. New ideas, new tools, new conversations. AI became a thing. Entire industries shifted. And I didn’t even see it happen.
I didn’t say it out loud, but I carried this quiet belief with me: I’ve fallen behind because I chose this life. What I couldn’t see then was this: I wasn’t falling behind. I was just measuring growth in a language the world doesn’t value openly.
Insurgence of Calyco
They called her wild
because she would not shrink
to fit the narrow rooms
built by fear.
They called her dangerous
because she remembered
what the world tried to make her forget:
that a soul, once awakened,
does not ask permission to live.
Where Growth Meets Grace and Progress Meets Peace
Ambition demands acquisition. Acquisition requires expansion. Expansion depends on power and influence. Power requires domination over masses. Domination demands conquest and colonisation. From colonisation stems, control, oppression, suppression and injustice. Peace and non-ambition are romanticised, but history shows they leave you vulnerable.
Disobedience
Disobedience Innocent and singing like a happy budLike a beautiful lotus growing in the mudLiving life through rose colored glassesSinging
To Win, Choose Authentic Doubt over Fake Confidence
We have spent a long time being told that confidence is the destination and doubt is what stands in the way. This essay has argued the opposite — and I want to leave you with that inversion clearly stated. The path to genuine, lasting confidence does not go around honest doubt. It goes directly through it.
Black Sheep or Pioneer? Born to Change the World – You Were Never Meant to Follow
Black Sheep You were always different – your likings, your thoughts, the way you chose to spend your time, the
I Win Quietly
Building is quiet, the struggle unseen,
Losing is quiet, the ground where hope has been.
Peace is quiet, letting go is healing
Suffering is quiet, like dawn from night concealing.
Battles will continue to wage
In the maddening riot of marauders,
Warmongers and harbingers of hate,
Until evil is cast through hell’s gate.
I win quietly.
From Survival to Thriving: Building a Better World
Randomness will always exist, and no person controls the whole structure of life. But collective responsibility means refusing to say, “Nothing can be done,” when harm is visible and change is possible. Each of us still participates in shaping it through our choices, institutions, habits, and silences. Collective responsibility is not about personal perfection; it is about staying engaged with the task of making conditions better for others, even when the outcome is uncertain. Collective responsibility requires the humility to admit that, and that inherited solutions may need to be rethought as the world changes. This does not mean rejecting tradition outright; it means treating tradition as a conversation starter, not a final authority. Real wisdom adapts to new realities while keeping its deeper ethical purpose intact: to reduce harm, increase understanding, and support human flourishing.
From Blocked to Brilliant: Your Creativity’s Missing Piece
Creativity can be cultivated. What I’m calling a creative-environment framework is the idea that different forms of creativity come alive in different settings. In other words, the right environment can make certain creative capacities easier to access and express. According to creative-environment framework, there are 10 different aspects of an environment that spark different kinds of creative thinking. When you match your creative domain to a conducive environment, your creativity goes through the roof. In a studio full of colour and paintings, you start thinking, feeling, talking, and flowing like a painter. Move to a meeting room with whiteboards and project tools, and you start thinking like a planner and strategist.
The idea that creativity can be cultivated from scratch got me really excited. Upon diving a bit deeper into Creative-environment framework, I created a table of the type of creativity you want to cultivate, the domain of your work, art, or project, and the environment that activates it most. Below is a one-page ready reckoner.
Diary of a Late Bloomer
So yes, I’m a late bloomer. Not in intelligence, but in the sense of inner and outer alignment. My blooming is really a late alignment between who I am inside and the life I am living on the outside. You could say late bloomers are people whose big growth or clarity shows up later than the timeline society expects. But by then the roots are strong. We have lived more summers, made more “wrong” turns, and that gives a strange kind of depth.
I followed the scripted life: study hard, get a degree, marry, have kids, get a job. They gave stability, yes, but not a sense of being fully alive. Now that I feel more aligned inside, I find myself on a path I didn’t fully choose, but one that feels familiar and tightly wrapped around my identity. I’m standing with one foot in that old, scripted life and one foot in a new life I’m trying to build.
Sorrow, the Silent Alchemist
Rocks turn to diamonds when crushed under weight,
Gold shines through fire that burns out the hate.
Now sacred – it stands in sacrifice’s temple,
Where sorrow walks steady, though inwardly it trembles.