Author: Neha

  • 08-02: Recalcitrant

    Recognizing someone from your old life can be such a terrifying experience. Eyes meet, and the past play’s like a movie. Scene after scene rushing forward at top speed. The speed of this recap is so fast, as if all these scenes have been stuffed into a space way too small to contain them. Then…

  • 08-01: Impertinent

    I read recently that being a adult means your confidence in the “manual of life” written by anyone but yourself becomes uncomfortable. So now, you become the author and follower of the manual. You write a draft and then follow it out in the real world. You collect data – Whats working? Whats failing? –…

  • 07-22: Homer

    I am coming to believe that the solution to the world’s problems isn’t to hate bullies. It’s to heal them. I don’t think children are born bullies, they are made into them. And why? Why do children become bullies? It’s antisocial, it’s certainly not the smartest long-run survival skill. It’s a short-term coping mechanism, like…