Rishita Chaudhary

But the most exciting outcome was this: I became someone who could just come up with an idea for a post, start writing, and finish . For most of my life, I felt like someone who was always coming up with ideas for projects and then never executing on them . There were the usual excuses: school was busy, work was busy, I didn’t have the time. But I... See more

distilled happiness to the knowledge that you have enough. It is not an easy knowledge to live with amid the commodified counterfeits of happiness that light up these sunset days of Western civilization, with its mesmerism of maximums and its cult of more, materially and spiritually — capitalism goads us to do more in order to own more while the... See more

Pessoa is the Portuguese word for “person,” and there is nothing he less wanted to be. Again and again, in both poetry and prose, Pessoa denied that he existed as any kind of distinctive individual. “I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist,” he writes in one poem. “I’m the gap between what I’d like to be and what others have made of me. . . .... See more

Originality of thought, artistic ingenuity, and the ability to connect unexpected dots is among my favorite sorts of flex.