Amrita Jeremiah

Not every relationship needs the steady drip of updates, the play-by-play of each passing hour. Some thrive on it. Others suffocate. After time alone, I’ve come to love my independence, to cherish the silence between messages, the space to exist without explanation.

Be so hungry to learn that you drop the act of knowing it all.

Curiosity beats pretending. Ask sharper questions, find people who make you rethink what you believe, and actually listen. When you stop needing to be right and start needing to grow, every conversation becomes a classroom.

Pride stops running the show, and progress takes over

In the Irish language, we are not our emotions. We are not sad or anxious. We have sadness or anxiety on us.

To say I am sad, we say tá brón orm - there is sadness on me.

I am anxious, tá imní orm - there is anxiety on me.

The language recognizes these as passing states, not permanent fixtures of who we are.

Social psychologist Erich Fromm once wrote that love is an art, not an obligation—and the art requires spaciousness, not surveillance. The presence of trust is actually what calms the nervous system long-term, not the presence of constant messages.

If Nike announced that they were opening a hotel, you’d have a pretty good guess about what it would be like. But if Hyatt announced that they were going to start making shoes, you would have NO IDEA WHATSOEVER what those shoes would be like. That’s because Nike owns a brand and Hyatt simply owns real estate.