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Welcome to my blog! I am a chemical engineer by day and an all-round creative by night. I’ve been on Bear for over two years, sharing personal essays, int...

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💌 sometimes i wish depression was a physical illness
published 2 years ago
💌 on balancing academics & writing
published 23 months ago
💌 december so far
published 23 months ago
💌 make peace with your unlived life
published 23 months ago
💌 looking back at 2024
published 22 months ago
💌 conversations with my psychiatrist, ii
published 21 months ago
💌 january notes
published 21 months ago
💌 i attended a live urban sketching session
published 21 months ago
💌 setting work boundaries with myself
published 21 months ago
💌 you are not an optimization problem
published 21 months ago
💌 pursuing dreams i once abandoned
published 21 months ago
💌 tala's depression survival guide
published 20 months ago
💌 on "small but certain happiness"
published 20 months ago
💌 the past few months
published 16 months ago
💌 a year on Bear
published 16 months ago
💌 on graduation & uncertainty
published 16 months ago
💌 of books, art exhibitions & writing
published 16 months ago
💌 on Murakami, sketching & authentic connections
published 16 months ago
💌 am i too self-aware?
published 16 months ago
💌 your life is not a prequel
published 16 months ago
💌 i am glad i am leaving the house
published 16 months ago
💌 rambling about my creative endeavors
published 16 months ago
💌 you don't need a grand life to blog
published 16 months ago
💌 doing the rotten work (i'm the rotten work)
published 16 months ago
💌 is it goodbye, fluoxetine?
published 15 months ago
💌 its ok to have a normal job
published 15 months ago
💌 finding meaning with a friend
published 15 months ago
💌 trying to be everything. will i become nothing?
published 15 months ago
💌 embarrassment is the price of entry
published 15 months ago
💌 on right and wrong choices
published 15 months ago
💌 visiting my family overseas, ii
published 14 months ago
💌 an ode to being an artist
published 14 months ago
💌 i spend too much time thinking about time
published 14 months ago
💌 learning to live on my own terms
published 14 months ago
💌 summer reflections
published 13 months ago
💌 perfectionism is a form of shame
published 13 months ago
💌 depression lingers: an update
published 13 months ago
💌 paralysis by analysis
published 13 months ago
💌 you need to disappoint the people around you
published 11 months ago
💌 on "maybe in another universe"-ing your way out of life
published 11 months ago
💌 i am not my depression
published 9 months ago
💌 rejection is redirection
published 9 months ago
💌 looking back at 2025 (the second edition)
published 9 months ago
💌 2026 in's & out's
published 9 months ago
💌 What do you do when life keeps going on without you?
published 9 months ago
💌 i'm avoiding the responsibility of my own life
published 8 months ago
💌 learning to be an amateur
published 8 months ago
💌 decay is an essential part of death & rebirth
published 8 months ago
💌 the five stages of grief
published 7 months ago
💌 lessons from consistent writing
published 7 months ago
💌 you vs. the people you admire
published 7 months ago
💌 doing things the right age is a made-up concept
published 7 months ago
💌 when in pain, zoom out!
published 7 months ago
💌 choose your hard
published 7 months ago
💌 i'll live my life if it kills me
published 6 months ago
💌 make a list of the hard times you survived
published 6 months ago
💌 25 lessons by 25
published 6 months ago
💌 are you closing your loops?
published 5 months ago
💌 your older self is begging you to enjoy right now
published 5 months ago
💌 a sea of fire / a field of flowers (serotiny)
published 5 months ago
💌 you should be joymaxxing your projects
published 5 months ago
💌 i haven't talked about depression & my old self in a while
published 4 months ago
💌 writing poetry, exploring creativity & letting loose, pt ii
published 4 months ago
💌 the world is your playground! have fun!
published 4 months ago
💌 make a list of everything you hate about your life
published 4 months ago
💌 the cage is open. why are you still in there?
published 4 months ago
💌 RE: closing my loops & summer recently
published 2 months ago
💌 you'll pay an emotional price for your inaction
published 7 weeks ago
💌 fear (of losing everything) is one hell of a motivator
published 6 weeks ago
💌 I am the luckiest person alive because I exist
published 5 weeks ago
💌 why do I still discipline myself through shame?
published 5 weeks ago
💌 if you can't find the needle, burn the haystack
published 4 weeks ago
💌 I think we all need to get over ourselves
published 3 weeks ago
💌 develop self-compassion because you'll mess up again, again, again
published 3 weeks ago
💌 not Icarus who fell, but Icarus who flew
published 13 days ago
💌 What would I do if I wasn't afraid?
published 12 days ago
💌 I just want it more
published 7 days ago
💌 how can you be late in life when its your life?
published 4 days ago