I sometimes wonder whether I have ever truly experienced imposter syndrome. A few times perhaps, but more often than not, the feeling I have come to have is the conviction that I am exactly where I was meant to be. I have never been entirely sure whether this is hubris, confidence, or self-preservation, but it […]

Do you think you have glory? it’s a strange question but hear me out. You see, there are people who arrive into the world, carrying a strange light around them. Before they have earned a thing, before they have fought a battle or won a prize, life already seems inclined in their direction. Doors open. Fortune […]

My first encounter with death was in the year 2000. You could say I was blissfully ignorant. Let me explain. I remember that day precisely. It rained water and ice, literally, and I played beneath it with my siblings and cousins, arms stretched wide. My maternal grandfather had been buried that morning. I was sad, […]

I’ll be painfully honest; I am writing this half-asleep. Not the kind that comes before rest, but the other kind, where you are awake and technically functioning yet somehow dimmer than you should be. Like a phone stuck at thirty percent. I have deleted Instagram maybe four times before. I am writing this on the […]

/ˌmɛtəkɒɡˈnɪʃn/ And here you go again. This will be your first time putting text to paper this year. I hope it is worth it, because you might as well drop that pen at once. What in the sweet hell has gotten into you, thinking you are a writer now? That dream died a long time […]

Humility is the gateway to wisdom. You can’t pour new knowledge into a mind that is already convinced it holds all the answers. My journey, especially my search for God, has been a continuous cycle of learning, unlearning, and relearning. A profound sense of peace, a kind of heaven, emerges when you truly grasp how […]

The distinction between good and bad becomes powerfully clear when seen through the lens of the Samurai-inspired concepts of the Warrior and the Gardener. True goodness isn’t impressive when one lacks the capacity for harm; it becomes a compliment only when you possess the skill, strength, and means to inflict damage but consciously choose peace. […]

In contemporary discourse, very few topics are as fiercely debated or as grievously misunderstood as the so-called “gender war.” Popular narratives paint a picture of a battlefield where women, newly liberated by modernity, have forsaken tradition, seeking power, validation, and promiscuity with the top echelon of men, or men closer to that class. Meanwhile, men […]