Some people come wrapped in warmth, compliments, and big smiles, but leave you feeling drained, small, or strangely unsure of yourself. “Nice” is easy to fake. “Good” is harder. Goodness shows up consistently when it’s inconvenient, when no one’s watching, and when empathy costs you something. If you’ve been second-guessing your ...Read More
Have you ever walked away from an interaction feeling uneasy, but you couldn’t quite put your finger on why? Maybe you felt drained, guilty, or slightly irritated, yet the other person didn’t actually say or do anything obviously wrong. That’s the thing about boundaries. People don’t always test them through ...Read More
There was a time when putting subtitles on made you look a little… extra. Friends would groan, someone would mutter “but we’re speaking the same language,” and the remote would start a small custody battle. If you kept the captions on anyway, that tells me a lot about you. Subtitles ...Read More
It’s easy to meet people. It’s not easy to keep them. Friendships often start effortlessly over shared humor, work proximity, or late-night conversations. But maintaining that same bond ten years later? That takes something more. Life changes. People grow apart, move cities, fall in love, get busy, or just quietly ...Read More
Ever walked into someone’s bathroom and instantly learned more about them than you expected? It’s fascinating, isn’t it? You can tell a lot about a person from how they treat their space, and the bathroom, of all rooms, might be the most revealing. It’s one of the few places where ...Read More
With tech, work, and the constant stream of notifications, it’s easy to assume life is better in every way now. But talk to boomers (really listen!) and you’ll hear a different beat beneath the noise. There were small, ordinary rituals that made everyday life feel special. Not grand gestures. ...Read More